Jonathan Miller Jonathan Miller

Liberté, égalité, vacciné: France’s Covid passport revolt is just beginning

issue 14 August 2021

Montpellier

Three weeks ago, 100,000 demonstrators turned out on the streets of France to protest President Emmanuel Macron’s hastily passed law to require vaccination passports to get on a train, eat at a restaurant or visit a shopping centre. A week later, the number had more than doubled. Last Saturday, it doubled again.

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