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Demonstrations against the corona restrictions inspired by the example of Canada have also been seen in the Netherlands and Australia.
In Canada police began cracking down on a truck demonstration in Ottawa on Saturday that was blocking traffic in Ottawa. The news was reported by the news agencies AFP and Reuters, among others British Broadcasting Corporation BBC.
The protests, known as the Freedom Convoy, began in late January when hundreds of truck and truck drivers drove to Ottawa to oppose the coroner vaccination required to cross the U.S. border. The city center has been blocked ever since, and the protest has expanded to oppose other issues as well.
On Saturday, police said, according to Reuters, they began to unload the blockade formed by the protesters from one bridge connecting Canada and the United States. It is a bridge that connects the Canadian city of Windsor and the U.S. Detroit.
The blockade of protesters at the border was ordered to end on Friday by a court order and police have demanded their peaceful departure. However, the protest has continued despite the order and requests.
A participant in the Canadian Freedom Convoy protests waved the Canadian flag in front of the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday, February 11th.
Canada protests inspired by the demonstration have been seen in several countries around the world.
In addition to Finland, interest rate restrictions and administration have been opposed in the same style, for example in Paris, The Hague in the Netherlands, Canberra in Australia and Wellington in New Zealand.
Hundreds of vehicles gathered in The Hague, the Netherlands, since Saturday morning. They blocked access to the Binnehof building complex used by the government. Protesters are demanding an end to all corona restrictions.
In France protesters from all over the country had camped near the capital on a night between Friday and Saturday, according to AFP, and headed for the ring road to Paris on Saturday morning.
The convoys were planned on French-language social media and the plan is to bring together convoys from different countries to Brussels, Belgium, on 14 February.
Read more: Convoy protests against coronation are also planned in Paris and Brussels
Reuters says French police stopped 500 protester vehicles heading for Paris on Saturday morning. In addition, protesters have been fined 300 according to police and 14 of the protesters have been arrested.
Protesters on the Champs-Élysée in Paris on Saturday on behalf of a “freedom convoy” against French corona restrictions.
However, some of the Convoi de la Liberté protesters made it to Paris. For example, they gathered around the Arc de Triomphe and the Champs-Élysée. Police used Reuters and BBC’s according to tear gas.
A lawful demonstration of the so-called yellow vests, separate from the Convoi de la Liberté protesters, gathered around 2,000 to 3,000 people elsewhere in Paris. In addition to interest rate restrictions, people are demonstrating a decline in living standards.
Australasia an Australian newspaper gathered near the country’s parliament building Canberra Timesin and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation news channel ABC News nearly 10,000 protesters took part in the “Convoy to Canberra” protest.
The Canberra Times reports that this was Australia’s largest protest to date against interest rate restrictions. It is said to have largely disrupted Canberra traffic.
The protest also caused the cancellation of the Lifeline book sale, which is raising money for crisis phone operations.
In New Zealand protests against the forced vaccination that began on Tuesday have continued.
In the capital, Wellington, protesters gathered near the parliament building on Saturday to try to evict by turning on sprinklers. Protesters, however According to ABC News react by digging ditches to divert water out of the area.
Protesters against coroner restrictions defied police in Wellington, New Zealand on Thursday, February 10th.
In addition to this, the President of Parliament Trevor Mallard has sought to evict protesters by pausing audio, such as vaccine bulletins, a US singer Barry Manilowin songs as well Macarenasongs. Protesters responded by putting their own songs to play, including the Twisted Sisters hit We’re Not Gonna Take It.
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