The national holiday Bastille Day in France began with protests.
The streets of Paris and Lyon drew smoke from many fires. Demonstrators set buses on fire and fired. Protesters fired flare guns at cars.
This year’s Bastille Day was held in an unusual format due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Under sanitary constraints, the grand military parade on the Champs-Elysees was replaced by a ceremony on the Place de la Concorde.
The main heroes of the celebrations were doctors who were on the front line in the fight against the Coronavirus epidemic.
The parade was attended by gendarmerie, police, firefighters and customs officers, who continued to serve in the midst of a sanitary crisis.
The ceremony culminated in the celebration of French medics, to whom the French applauded every evening from the windows in the midst of the epidemic. A huge tricolour was deployed on the square, surrounded by people in white robes and military medical service uniforms.
It should be noted that July 14, France celebrates a national holiday – Bastille Day. On July 14, 1789 during the Great French Revolution the Bastille fortress was taken by storm.