French Police Fire Tear Gas to Disperse Anti-COVID-19 Restrictions Protests

French police used gas, tear canisters to disperse protesters who took to the streets today, Saturday, to express refusal to obligatory vaccination to people of some professions in the country and extending the health passport.

"Euro News", a news website mentioned that clashes broke out when groups of the protesters hurled stones and water bottles at the cops.

The angry protesters assaulted an officer of enforcement.

The demonstrators condemned the decision to oblige the French to get health certificates to be allowed in public places across the country.

According to a reporter of "Russia Today", a Russian news website, tens of thousands of the French people took to the streets to the last week's decisions taken by France's President Emanuel Macron to get permission before admission to the cultural and entertainment places along with restaurants, coffee shops, and malls.

Earlier this month, "health permits" were introduced in France to enter museums and cinemas.

This certificate confirms that the owner has been vaccinated, tested negative for coronavirus, or recently contracted an illness.

Today, lawmakers in the French Senate discussed a bill requiring everyone to obtain a health card for "COVID-19" disease to enter restaurants and other closed places and impose the new Coronavirus on all health care workers.

It is worth noting that  French President Emmanuel Macron announced several new measures to limit the spread of the Coronavirus, such as compulsory vaccination for workers in hospitals and medical centers, and the adoption of a “health certificate” in every place that includes more than 50 people.

Media and social networking sites published a video clip showing doctors and nurses throwing their white clothes on the ground in France, in protest against the new Corona restrictions.

The media outlets indicated that groups of medical workers and ordinary citizens gathered in front of the medical center in the city of Pau in southwestern France, to protest against the mandatory immunization against “COVID-19.