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They are determined to demonstrate in Paris. Thousands of people taking part in the “freedom convoy” are trying to escape the police roadblocks set up in the capital. The journalist Thomas Cunny takes stock of the situation, live from Champs-Elysees in Paris.
“For the moment, there are not many demonstrators at the foot of the Arc de Triomphe, we are precisely at the top of the Champs-Élysées”, reports journalist Thomas Cunnylive from Champs-Elysees in Paris. The journalist specifies that he attends, since this morning of Saturday February 12, “game of cat and mouse”.
Convoys take place in the streets adjacent but for no gathering has taken place yet. Protesters presenting themselves with a tricolor flag “are systematically checked”. Their ID and bag are checked. According to the Paris police headquarters, since this morning, 283 people have been fined. The police system is important. There are the police national but also mobile gendarmes as well as armored vehicles which stand ready to intervene in the event of an overflow.