Protests rocked the small Balkan country of Slovenia a couple of weeks ago.
The nation of roughly 2 million people expressed their outrage against COVID-19 injection mandates issued by the government.
Slovenia’s COVID-19 mandate is among the strictest in Europe.
Thousands of people protested in the capital city of Ljubljana and demanded the government resign.
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Slovenia started the medical apartheid today (unvaxxed can only buy groceries, nothing else e.g. coffee outdoors, haircuts, clothes). I left the protest when the tear gas got too much. News reports 8k ppl (so figure maybe higher)- Ljubljana is only 250k ppl. @FatEmperor #slovenia pic.twitter.com/CYYdf7IWQ3
— Max Darachi (@maxdarachi) September 15, 2021
Since my last report, the protests have only intensified in Slovenia.
The numbers have grown to the tens of thousands.
Some estimates think nearly 100,000 people protested in the streets.
Massive crowds blocked roads & highways around Ljubljana.
Police responded by firing water cannons on the crowds.
Here’s some of the footage:
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1443656450459373568
#Slovenia The images of the great protest against #compulsory #vaccination against #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/bfkGEb4GiV
— Donato Yaakov Secchi (@doyaksec) September 30, 2021
Translated from French
Several thousand people demonstrate and block the main roads of Ljubljana in #Slovenia to protest against the compulsory health pass to work, access a gas station or shopping center.
Protesters demand early elections. https://t.co/IqIiHCRpfE
— 🎗Free Assange (@2sitwat1) September 30, 2021
Slovenia today 🇸🇮
Thousands of people demonstrate and block the main roads of Ljubljana to protest against the mandatory 💉 pass to work, access a gas station or a shopping center. Protesters are demanding early elections. pic.twitter.com/uyVLWn5jLP— Giddywids (@Giddywids) September 30, 2021
Ljubljana, Slovenia vaccination mandate protest September 29 https://t.co/udbXii6lCv
— Ikmel A.A.A (@Ikmel_AAA) September 30, 2021
Slovenia police use water cannons at anti-COVID pass protest https://t.co/0s1qD3QTzi pic.twitter.com/qKTEmsNL6i
— New York Post (@nypost) September 30, 2021
The rally demanded immediate lifting of the PCT requirement and immediate government resignation.https://t.co/PlEVZXPq2p
— European Dad! (@drumcodeuk) September 30, 2021
Množica se je ponovno zbrala na Trgu republike, kjer se protestni shod nadaljuje. @rtvslo #protest pic.twitter.com/hZcBO7AOLK
— Miha Zavrtanik (@MihaZavrtanik) September 29, 2021
https://twitter.com/BeachLife7/status/1443419748411314177
News also broke of the temporary suspension of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 jab following the death of a 20-year old female recipient.
Slovenia has temporarily suspended use of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine after a 20-year-old woman died of a brain hemorrhage and blood clots just days after getting the jab https://t.co/mGPV3RxksY
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) September 29, 2021
NEW: Central European country Slovenia suspends Johnson & Johnson vaccine after death of 20-year-old womanhttps://t.co/pO65xij2DU
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) September 30, 2021
The Epoch Times reported:
Slovenia has temporarily suspended the use of Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine after a 20-year-old woman who had recently received the single-dose shot died, officials announced on Sept. 29.
“According to the notification of a serious adverse event after vaccination Janssen [J&J], members of the advisory group suggest that vaccination with this vaccine be suspended until the situation is clarified,” Health Minister Janez Poklukar said in an official government statement.
The woman, whose identity has been withheld, was hospitalized on Sept. 27 with a severe condition, local media reported. She died of a brain hemorrhage and blood clots on the night of Sept. 28—just days after receiving the single-dose vaccine, according to the reports.
She was the second recipient of the J&J vaccine in Slovenia to have experienced a serious health condition that wasn’t COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP virus, the official STA news agency reported.
“We are all shaken and I wish to express my condolences to the family of the deceased. We concluded at the session of our task force that this incident might have been connected to vaccination and we decided to temporarily halt all vaccination with this particular vaccine,” said Bojana Beović, a government health worker in charge of vaccinations.
The suspension will be in place until experts determine whether there was a link between the woman’s death from a stroke and the vaccine shot she received, Poklukar said.
A large-scale demonstration that involved thousands of citizens erupted Sept. 29 on the streets of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia and the country’s largest city, against the latest government-imposed CCP virus restrictions.
Police fired tear gas and water cannons in Slovenia’s capital on Wednesday at thousands of protesters who oppose tough anti-coronavirus measures in the small European Union nation.
The protesters responded by throwing bottles and other objects at the riot police.
About 10,000 protesters, chanting “Freedom! Freedom!” tried to block a major highway north of Ljubljana when the police intervened, the second such incident in Slovenia within a month.
The protest, organized mostly by groups against the use of COVID-19 vaccine passes, took place as Slovenia suspended the use of the Johnson & Johnson shot on Wednesday while it investigates the death of a 20-year-old woman who had received one.
From the Slovenia Times:
The protesters opposing the recovered-vaccinated-tested (PCT) requirement today raised the issue of the death of a 20-year-old, who died within a fortnight after receiving a shot of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Her father addressed the crowd.
The rally demanded immediate lifting of the PCT requirement and immediate government resignation.
Protesters were also critical of media reporting, and obstructed some journalist crews reporting from the scene, including the teams of commercial TV stations Kanal A and POP TV. They were throwing different objects at them and spat on them. A security guard accompanying the teams sustained light injuries.
A group of protesters also stopped in front of the building of public broadcaster RTV Slovenija, where police also used the water canon.
The Slovenian Association of Journalists (DNS) responded by urging people to respect the work of journalists in the field and not put them in danger, as they are merely doing their job. It also called on media outlets and police to provide for the safety of journalist crews working in the field.
The Association of Journalists and Commentators (ZNP) also expressed concern over the violence against journalists, saying it had become a regular feature at protests. Since cameras recorded the attack on the journalist crews today, the ZNP expects police to find the perpetrator and take appropriate action.
Prime Minister Janez Janša commented on the events on Twitter by saying that attacks, threats and violations of Covid-19 rules were not the constitutional right to assembly. “The leadership of the Ljubljana police is obviously not capable of preventive action, it’s time for the Interior Ministry to take action,” he tweeted.
In just two weeks, Slovenia has emerged as one of Europe’s fiercest uprisings against COVID-19 tyranny.
Slovenians are fed up with their government.
And they’re threatening to completely shut the country down if the government doesn’t resign.
if the government does not step down in the following days, we will stop our country in its tracks by abandoning our cars in the middle of the roads wherever we are at that particulat moment in time
nobody will move, anywhere.
we have had enough.
— Doggo (@SemiSaneDoggo) September 30, 2021
My eyes will stay glued to this situation to see how it unfolds.
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