"None of us have been apostrophe, or arrested, by a police officer. "This is what Eric, 51, deplores, to our colleagues from France Bleu deplore Saturday, January 15. This resident of Vannes, in Brittany, has participated for weeks in events against the health pass organized every Saturday. And recently, he received in his mailbox a contravention notice dated December 4, at 2:15 p.m., on the Simone Veil esplanade located in front of the port of Vannes. He will have to pay a fine of 135 euros for "violation of a measure imposing the wearing of the protective mask in a territorial district in a state of health emergency or having to face the epidemic of Covid-19". However, Eric did not remember having been controlled by a police officer that day. A dozen other demonstrators would also have received the same type of verbalization. "We deduced that it was video surveillance," said Eric. Before wondering: "How did they know who I am and what is my address? »»

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No controls to "avoid" overflows

The hypothesis of the use of video surveillance to verbalize the demonstrators was swept by the prefect of Morbihan, Joël Mathurin.According to him, this measure had "been mentioned" but had not finally been retained."The services found in the field that these people were present without mask," said the prefect at France Bleu.He justified that there had been no "notification during the demonstration", in order to "avoid any disturbance in public order".Joël Mathurin has also promised that the police will continue to carry out "verbalizations which will be notified in an offbeat manner".

"We will demonstrate until the end"

Despite everything, that will not prevent Eric from continuing to demonstrate every Saturday against government measures: "They want us to Em ******* until the end, we will manifest until the end.The latter had thought, with other demonstrators, of engaging a lawyer to defend their cause.But this procedure would be too expensive."Some have already received three fines, so paying the lawyer and perhaps the contraventions in addition is not possible," he admitted.