An anti-mask demonstration in Paris this weekend (Saturday August 29) attracted just 200 – 300 people and ended with 123 people being fined by police for not wearing masks.
Somewhere between this number attended the protest, which began at Place de la Nation in the capital, said the Agence-France-Presse.
Despite – or perhaps because of – the nature of the event, the police prefecture did not hesitate to fine people who were not wearing a mask, and announced that 123 – around half – of the group were given the standard €135 punishment.
In a Tweet, the prefecture added that one person was arrested for “outrage and rebellion”.
The protesters were accusing the government of “manipulating people with fear” and imposing mandatory masks on the population “without any scientific justification”. Placards read: “Stop the lies and corruption” and “the deep State will not pass”.