mobilization down slightly this Saturday
4:55 p.m. | Numbers vary
The demonstrators, who scatter, were 1000 according to the prefecture and 3800 according to the organizers.
3:45 p.m. | The demonstration arrived in front of the Halles
The Renée Richard forecourt is the announced place of the end of this anti-sanitary pass and anti-vaccination pass demonstration.
2:30 p.m. | The procession starts
The procession, initiated by the angry Lyon collective, revives Place Lyautey.
About 450 people are gathered. The first songs are little brought with regard to Emmanuel Macron.
2:00 p.m. | It’s starting to happen place Lyautey
The sun is pointing the tip of its nose at Place Maréchal Lyautey, as are the people of Lyon mobilized against the health and vaccination pass.
They are for the moment a few hundred ready to express their opposition.
1:00 p.m. | Routes, gatherings, processions… The point on what is expected
The course of the anti-sanitary pass and anti-vaccination pass demonstration, organized by the Lyon pour la liberté collective, was reviewed at the last moment.
The procession has an appointment at 2 p.m. Place Lyautey (rather than Place Bellecour) and will arrive as planned from the start on the Parvis Renée-Richard (Lyon 3rd).
A change at the request of the prefecture which is struggling to pass: “The more the fight progresses, the more restrictions are placed on us”, affirms Thibault Pillet, spokesperson for Lyon for freedom.
The yellow vests could gather at Place Bellecour, for a demonstration that is not declared.
Demonstrations banned in part of the city center
Highlighting “the illegal and violent acts” that have occurred in recent weeks, in particular last Saturday when yellow vests “had taken part in the police”, the prefect delegated to security issued an order prohibiting part of the center -city of Lyon to the demonstrators this January 22 from 12 to 8 p.m.
The prohibited perimeter encompasses a large part of the peninsula between Place des Terreaux and Place Carnot, as well as part of Vieux-Lyon.
Finally, another anti-pass demonstration, which regularly brings together only about fifty people, takes place this Saturday afternoon at Place Ambroise-Courtois.