About 3,500 people passed through Prague during demonstrations against compulsory vaccination
Updates: 09/01/2022 18:50
Released: 09.01.2022, 15:38
Prague – According to the police, around 3,500 people in the afternoon passed through Prague from Wenceslas Square in Prague’s Hradčanské Square during a demonstration against the compulsory vaccination against covid-19. You call on the government to repeal the decree on compulsory vaccination for selected professions and people over the age of 60, criticizing the effectiveness of the vaccine, vaccinating children or wearing veils. The police did not record any incidents or violations of public order, police spokesman Jan Rybanský told ČTK. The protesters met at Wenceslas Square at 2 pm at an event convened by the Chcípl PES initiative. The spokesman said that according to police estimates, there were 3,000 of them at the beginning, gradually more were added and around 3,500 marched around 3:30 p.m.
According to Rybanský, police estimates originally listed up to 4,000 people in the march, but later it specifies 3,500 participants in the march.
The space in front of the statue of St. Wenceslas demonstrating with national flags and banners filled them around 14:00 to the mouth of Opletalova Street and stood on the adjacent road. In the end, they went through Můstek and Revoluční Street to the seat of the government in the Straka Academy, from where they headed to Hradčanské náměstí, where, according to a ČTK correspondent, they ended the march by singing the national anthem around 18:00. The organizers also announced that other similar demonstrations are being produced by the end of January. The police were watching the event all the time, stopping traffic along the march route.
The protests took place on Saturday in other cities across the country. Probably the most people gathered in Brno, where a parade of about 2,000 protesters passed through the center.
Miroslav Havrda, a doctor and member of the parallel medical chamber, spoke among the speakers in Prague. “What would we be afraid of? Nothing. The worst thing is death from fright. We are behaving decently and living freely,” he said. According to him, the health of the population is decided today by people who have never worked with patients, appointed laboratory scientists, biochemists or statisticians. According to him, there is a secret directive at the Faculty of Medicine of Charles University, which will prevent unvaccinated students from graduating.
The event is also attended by representatives of the so-called declarations of doctors, nurses, lawyers, students, members of the Integrated Rescue System (IRS), the police and the army. According to the signatories of the declarations, vaccines do not work and cause irreversible side effects. According to them, the vaccination of young children should be abolished. They also don’t like the mandatory wearing of respirators, they also criticized informing the public about vaccinations. The declarations of the mentioned professional groups, which are not legally binding according to the Petitions Act, have been signed on the Internet by over 82,000 people. Thousands of signatories have said they work in these fields.
Václav Hrabák and Dana Vorlíčková spoke on behalf of the doctors’ declaration. According to them, vaccinations and revaccinations do not give the mind, and on the contrary, negative effects such as thrombosis, paralysis, visual impairment or multiple sclerosis are said to occur. Vorlíčková called the covid vaccination a crazy experiment and “one of the greatest medical experiments in human history.” According to her, it is absurd that two years of people’s lives are governed by a covid. “It’s up to every person I get in my body,” she added.
Representatives of nurses, firefighters or police and soldiers performed on the stage. Volunteer firefighter Tomáš Janda said that vaccination did not prevent transmission. “Most of the nation leaves the freedom to marry without resistance. I want to continue living freely and being a volunteer firefighter,” he said. Firefighter Hana Šolcová does not like the vaccines that they do not have completed clinical studies.
The Chcípl PES initiative was created as a protest against measures restricting the operation of restaurants. As a political movement, we will open the Czechia – Chcípl PES then ran in the parliamentary elections, in which the movement won 0.4 percent of the vote. After the election, dozens of small groups and parties began to take part in its events, sharing a critical view of the government’s actions.