Anger Over COVID-19 Rules Gives New Impetus to France’s Yellow Vests

Jerome Rodrigues, one of the yellow vest movement's leading figures, attends an interview with Reuters beside a protest of the "yellow vests" movement, in Paris on July 21, 2021. Sarah Meyssonnier/Reuters

TREMBLAY-EN-FRANCE, France—Working from his one-room apartment near Paris airport, Jerome Rodrigues has been trying to re-invigorate a Yellow Vest protest movement that two years ago challenged President Emmanuel Macron’s rule then petered out.

Now, public anger at government measures to curb the spread of COVID-19, which some people say are an attack on their liberty, has given Rodrigues and his movement fresh momentum.