In the wake of the spectacular blocking operation organized since the end of January by Canadian truck drivers, social networks are in turn buzzing with calls for mobilization in all directions. And each department now offers – Wednesday or Thursday – a group departure towards the capital, then for the bravest to Brussels on Sunday. From Rochefort, Nice, Strasbourg or Bordeaux, so many Facebook pages and Telegram messengers are multiplying without really allowing the mobilization to be gauged yet.
Apolitical… or almost
“Between twenty and fifty individuals, all vehicles combined”, believes a well-informed source on the Bayonne side. No safety vest this time placed on the dashboard as a sign of rallying, but a tricolor flag to be printed on one of the online accounts. which are not lacking. Main aggregate of volunteers, the page “Le convoy de la liberté” thus united, this Tuesday, February 8, some 277,000 members. Heterogeneous profiles, all or almost all claiming to be apolitical, but whose contestation of the vaccination pass often appears to be only a pretext. Where we will find pell-mell the former Insoumis Juan Branco, the former frontist Florian Philippot, a small army of naturopaths, restaurant owners and activists often close to the two extremes.
In Ottawa (Canada), paralyzed by around 500 trucks, the mayor declared a state of emergency on Monday.
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And their claims to move away from the health aspect alone. Let us quote the liter of gasoline with 1 euro, the Smic with 2000, a fall of 50% of the tariffs of gas and electricity, and generally a general mobilization against a hated president. At the head of “La meute”, one of the branches of the movement, a certain Rémi Monde, agitator with 14,000 subscribers on his Facebook page: “They had the sheep, we will have to come and get the wolves. »