To choose health or civil liberty

Writing, reporting, producing & mixing: Lucy Martirosyan

You can think of the ‘health pass’ in France like a hall pass to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test before seeing a movie. Or going to a museum. But for Caroline — one of the many ‘gilets jaunes’ who showed up to protest the measure at Bastille in Paris — it’s George Orwell’s 1984 Big Brother nightmare come to life.

More than 160,000 people marched across France with some clashes with armed police on Saturday to denounce the new sanitary measure.

Lucy Martirosyan · To choose health, or civil liberty

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