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5:06 p.m. : Our journalist Fabien Magnenou came across an anti-sanitary pass demonstration, on foot this time, on avenue du Maine, in the 14th arrondissement of the capital. It counted 450 participants.
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4:54 p.m. : “We rather have demonstrators who are quite qualified and who are part, for a certain number of them, of what is commonly called the middle classes. When we look in particular at their relationship to politicians, these are people who, or, abstain a great deal from elections, which is the case more and more of the French, and have an equally marked tendency to vote blank, which basically shows a kind of disaffiliation vis-à-vis anything resembling institutions, including politics.“
At the microphone of franceinfo, Stéphane Sirot tries to paint a typical portrait of the demonstrators.
4:38 p.m. : Why are the truck drivers and their unions not associated with the freedom convoy, contrary to what happened across the Atlantic? Because their situation is very different from that of their Canadian counterparts who paralyze the main roads. Explanations in our article.
4:40 p.m. : “For all citizens who would be in a protest attitude, there is a very simple way, not violent, to say what we think, it is to vote in the presidential election.”
For Anne Hidalgo, traveling to Pointe-à-Pitre, in Guadeloupe, “It is within this framework that we can resolve the tensions of French society. (…) “We had five years of great tension, of absence of dialogue, five years which have seen regularly, and I am thinking of the ‘yellow vests’, our country put in difficulty. But what I am saying does not in any way justify neither the violence that we have known, nor those that we could know”.
4:18 p.m. : The terraces of the Champs Elysées invaded by gas. The forces are trying to disperse the participants of the “Convoi de la Liberté”. #convoisdelaliberte #ConvoiFrance2022 #Paris
4:17 p.m. : According to journalist Clément LanotCRS were deployed in the area, an extremely rare decision.
4:15 p.m. : Tear gas capsules land inside a cafe. #ChampsElysees #convoisdelaliberte
4:15 p.m. : Tear gas lands towards a café terrace. Families with children affected and evacuated #convoipourlaliberte #ChampsElysees
4:15 p.m. : And meanwhile, incidents continue on the sidelines of the various “freedom convoys” attempting to enter Paris. Brut journalist Rémy Buisine reports on an incident in a café located on the self-proclaimed “most beautiful avenue in the world”.
4:02 p.m. : It is 4 p.m. We make a new update on the news:
French President Emmanuel Macron spoke for 1 hour and 40 minutes with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in an attempt to ease the growing tension in the Russian-Ukrainian crisis. Several countries have called on their nationals to leave Ukraine in the face of the risk of invasion.
The police used tear gas in the early afternoon to disperse demonstrators from the “freedom convoy” who had met on the Champs-Elysées in Paris. Follow our live.
#OG2022 Quentin Fillon Maillet takes silver in the sprint, the seventh French medal at the Beijing Olympics. Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron take the lead in the ice dance competition, before the final results on Monday.
3:53 p.m. : In Paris, the place de l’Etoile and the avenue des Champs-Elysées were evacuated by the police. Motorists and protesters on foot dispersed in the streets around and adjacent to Place de l’Etoile. Several vehicles were removed, according to the police headquarters.
3:36 p.m. : Some 337 people were fined and 14 people arrested during the various rallies linked to the “freedom convoy” in Paris, announces the police headquarters.
2:18 p.m. : The Place de la Concorde in Paris is currently blocked by a hundred vehicles, notably from the “freedom convoy”, reports a franceinfo journalist on the spot. There are also protesters on foot. The atmosphere, for the moment, is good-natured.
2:03 p.m. : The dispute does not stop. Anti-sanitary measures protesters in Canada continue to paralyze a major border axis with the United States, despite an Ontario court decision on Friday ordering the protesters to leave.
2:48 p.m. : “We can clearly see that this is a secession movement from a part of the country that does not understand, does not find itself and has a desire for revolt.”
The president of the MoDem François Bayrou deplores that a part “important one of our compatriots no longer believes anything we tell her”which, according to him, engendered the revolt movement of the “convoy of freedom”.
2:16 p.m. : Protesters from the “freedom convoy” are currently trying to block the Champs-Elysées roundabout. Law enforcement intervenes.
2:16 p.m. : About fifty demonstrators belonging to the “freedom convoy” were evacuated from the Place de l’Etoile in Paris, at the end of the Champs-Elysées. The dispersal took place calmly, even if the demonstrators, some of whom spent the night outside, are angry.
12:59 : “This social protest is healthy. They are right to fight and I applaud them for inviting themselves into this electoral campaign. It feels good to finally hear about the problems of the working classes.”
Asked about the “freedom convoy” movement, the Lutte Ouvrière candidate Nathalie Arthaud expressed her support in the face of the anger of precarious French people.
12:54 p.m. : Some tensions at the Place d’Italie in Paris between demonstrators of the “freedom convoy”, who managed to enter the capital and the large police force on site.
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12:00 p.m. : It is noon. We make a new update on the news:
Thousands of opponents of the vaccination pass, who came in convoys from all over France, tried to enter Paris to demonstrate despite the ban by the police headquarters. More than 200 verbalizations were drawn up. Follow our live.
Quentin Fillon Maillet takes silver in the sprint, the seventh French medal at the Beijing Olympics.
Faced with the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, presented as imminent, the telephone bells are ringing on both sides of the Atlantic in an attempt to relaunch dialogue: Putin must in particular meet today with Biden and Macron.
11:26 : In a press release, the Paris police headquarters recalls that the organizers of a demonstration banned by the authorities can be punished by six months in prison and a fine of 7,500 euros. The participants themselves are likely to be fined a fourth class fine, or 135 euros.
11:23 : Hello @Lionel. The verbalizations are drawn up for “participation in a prohibited demonstration” following the ban on the gathering by the Paris police headquarters.
11:23 : Hello, I do not understand what is the reason for verbalization of the people of the “freedom convoy”. Do we no longer have the right to drive our vehicle on the road?
11:27 : The verbalizations continue in Paris and around after the prohibition of the demonstration of the convoy of freedom, like here on the Champs-Elysées with the Brigade of repression of the motorized violent action (BRAV-M).
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10:44 am : The police headquarters announces having intercepted a convoy of 450 vehicles at Porte Saint-Cloud, near Paris. In total, more than 150 verbalizations have already taken place this morning, while the rally was banned in Paris.
10:43 am : Nearly 7,200 police and gendarmes “are deployed over the next three days to enforce vehicle convoy bans”, according to the Prefecture of Police. Gendarmerie armored vehicles have also been deployed in the capital, a first since the demonstrations of “yellow vests” at the end of 2018.
10:42 : How many will there be in the capital? Thousands of opponents of the vaccination pass who came in convoys from all over France camped at the gates of the capital and are on the road again this morning to enter Paris and demonstrate, despite the ban by the police headquarters.
09:04 : It’s 9 o’clock. We make a first point on the news:
Thousands of opponents of the vaccination pass who came in convoys from all over France, and who have camped at the gates of the capital, are taking to the road again this morning to enter Paris and demonstrate despite the ban by the police headquarters. Follow our live.
Faced with the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, presented as imminent, the telephone bells are ringing on both sides of the Atlantic in an attempt to relaunch dialogue: Putin must in particular meet today with Biden and Macron.
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