Participants in a protest against COVID certificates in RomeROME, Jan 15Several thousand people occupied a vast area near the Roman Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano for the first protest action this year against COVID green pass certificates, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. friend. In the rays of the un-January warm sun, just before it began, the rally resembled a picnic, which was facilitated by the generally peaceful mood of the protesters and popular music from the speakers. However, even the vast space was not enough to hold a full-fledged sit-in protest, so those who came to the square a little later were forced to stay on their feet.Guterres: the world is far from the goal of vaccinating the population of the EarthThe demonstration was organized by a dozen small organizations and movements that united under the initiative «Truth is freedom.» Participants of the action brought posters with slogans against «dictatorship» to it. Among the banners you can see the slogans «the punishment for those who do not cave in under the green pass» is (starvation) death, «there is no tyranny worse than that which occurs in the shadow of the law», «journalists lie when they are blackmailed.» RIA Novosti, one of the organizers of the action and its most «loud» host, Angelo Distefano, its participants do not aim to divide the population into supporters and opponents of vaccination, but protest against the system of «green passes» itself. «We do not want discrimination, we decided to take the field to protect our rights — social and economic, because freedom is the first and universal human right,» said Distefano, leaning off the stage. Virologist told how long the wave of «omicron» in Russia will last
