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For several weeks, demonstrators have been meeting in Chartres every Saturday to oppose the health pass. According to the prefecture of Eure-et-Loir, they were 800 this summer and are now 300. Excesses were observed by the services of the State during the last two demonstrations, Saturdays September 11 and 18, 2021. Two demonstrations that had not been declared in the prefecture, as required by law.
“The police forces were brought to prevent them from doing anything, including blocking traffic for about thirty minutes”, on Boulevard Chasles de Chartres (Eure-et-Loir) and try to do sitings on the public highway.
An organized demonstration or nothing
According to state services in Eure-et-Loir, this movement has no official organizer and the opponents meet the following week at each end of the demonstration.
This Monday, September 20, 2021, the prefect of Eure-et-Loir threatens to ban the meeting for next Saturday, September 25, 2021, if the demonstrators do not file a request for prior authorization and a route to be discussed with the authorities before Thursday 23 September 2021, midi.
“We don’t do just anything in Chartres”
Otherwise, the demonstration will be prohibitede and Françoise Souliman warn that if it is held, the demonstrators will be liable to fines.
We put ourselves in danger when we do anything, we endanger people. We whistle the end of recess. The signal given is not good, we do not do just anything in Chartres, as in all the other towns in France.
The safety of walkers and traders
“The idea is not to be repressive at all, but simply that people who want to express their opposition to the sanitary pass let people who want to walk, buy on Saturday afternoon, quietly in the city of Chartres be able to do so. do this without hindering traffic, ”continues the prefect of Eure-et-Loir.
Since the beginning of the movement, an arrest in Chartres
A person was arrested on Saturday September 11, 2021, on the sidelines of this demonstration. A man, defined himself as a “pseudo leader” of the movement, “he trained everyone and spoke loudly”.
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The representative of the State evokes the desire of her services “not to provoke incidents and to ensure that everyone can exercise their right to demonstrate, in republican rules and in the interest of traders and passers-by”.
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