Citizens angry at the health pass and "deprivation of freedom" in particular want to leave Calais, Laon, Lille and Valenciennes in transported convoys to go and bottle the capital. A movement inspired by the Canadian truck drivers who blocked the city of Ottawa.
It is difficult to have precise information on what the demonstrators want since the administrators refuse to express themselves in the media. One of the members of the Facebook group explained to us by message that "people have all kinds of grievances, but the essence of the message is their suffering. Suffering from the confinements and restriction measures, suffering from a split vaccinated / unvaccinated and economic and social suffering against a backdrop of galloping inflation and widening inequalities". She believes that the convoys are "the cement that the people need to unite behind a noble cause: that of freedom certainly, but also of fraternity and dignity".
https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/ar ... 55770.htmlSeparated into six regional groups, they met in Paris on the weekend of February 12 and 13, and intend, for some, to then go to Brussels: the "freedom convoy", inspired by the social movement which has paralyzed the Canadian capital, Ottawa, for several days, intends to protest against health measures and the decline in purchasing power. On Facebook, supporters of the mobilization are gathered in several groups, the largest of which has grown in ten days from 50 to 000 members. For his part, the prefect of police announced, Thursday, February 350, to ban in Paris the “freedom convoys” which planned to “block the capital” from Friday.
Tomorrow we will be fixed on the participation