More than one hundred thousand people protested across France (AP) on Saturday to denounce new restrictions aimed at controlling rising COVID-19 infections and requirements that health-care workers be vaccinated.
Anti-vaccine protesters march with a banner during a rally in Paris, Saturday, July 17, 2021. A Holocaust survivor, French officials and anti-racism groups are denouncing anti-vaccination protesters who are comparing themselves to Jews persecuted by the Nazis. Some mostly far-right demonstrators at weekend protests against government vaccine rules wore yellow stars, like those Jews were forced to wear under Nazi rule in World War II. Other demonstrators carried signs evoking the Auschwitz death camp or South Africa's apartheid regime, claiming the French government is unfairly persecuting them as it battles the pandemic. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
More than one hundred thousand people protested across France (AP) on Saturday to denounce new restrictions aimed at controlling rising COVID-19 infections and requirements that health-care workers be vaccinated. Two COVID-19 vaccination centers in southern France were ransacked (BBC).
North Macedonia: The government said it repatriated its last group (AP) of suspected former fighters from the self-proclaimed Islamic State, who will now face trial. The four suspects and their families were transferred from Iraq and Syria.
