French police built barricades on Friday morning, in an attempt to block the Champs-Elysees and other streets around the Presidential Palace, as a convey of trucks protesting COVID-19 politics is due to try to to enter Paris.

Special equipment and concrete blocks were also brought to help stop the trucks from heading to their final destination, to join the main demonstration in Brussels on Monday, despite a ban.

Dubbed the 'European truck convoy,' the action is inspired by the Canadian protests, which have attracted thousands of truck drivers and protesters, coming together to oppose COVID-19 restrictions, vaccine mandates, and the government’s handing of the situation.

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