Toulouse: access to the city center prohibited to demonstrators
A new event will take place this Saturday, February 19, from 2 p.m. (Jean-Jaurès). The prefect prohibits access to the city center. The procession should wander in the direction of Arnaud-Bernard, under the supervision of the police.
It has been more than eight months since every Saturday, anti-sanitary pass demonstrators demonstrate on Saturday at 2 p.m. in Toulouse, from Jean-Jaurès. This Saturday February 19 will not escape the rule, despite the announcement of a reduction in sanitary measures (wearing a mask, schools) by the end of the month, and at the start of the winter holidays.
“An anti-fascist and anti-racist agreement against the vaccine pass, digital bureaucracy, the digital injunction of our health and life data”, as the demonstrators allow on social networks, will be displayed this Saturday. Protesters will also reject the digital health medical record. This tool, called “My Health Space”, allows patients to share their medical data with doctors.
The demonstrators will gather “Yellow vests, trade unions, industry, services, health, peasant agriculture, climate movements, culture, entertainment, sports, teachers, parents of students, students, angry residents and anti-fascists” .
The city center prohibited, but the demonstration tolerated on the boulevards
Support for “comrades and yellow vests of the West Indies and Guyana” will also be affirmed.
As usual, to avoid any overflow in the city center (octagon of the boulevards), the prefect of Haute-Garonne prohibited access to the hypercentre of Toulouse to any undeclared protest rally, this Saturday.
“During previous undeclared demonstrations, it was observed that barrier measures and social distancing were not respected, which is likely to promote the spread of the Covid-19 virus in the event of high population density”, explains also the prefect in his prohibition order.
As was the case previously, the prohibition order relates only to the territory of the city center delimited by the boulevards (the latter not being included therein). Thus, these demonstrations are not prohibited as such, indicate the prefecture, provided that they do not enter the perimeter of the hypercentre of Toulouse and that the barrier gestures are applied there.