2023-05-05 22:26:10
Prohibited demonstrations, disrupted transport and large security perimeter: the Rhône prefecture announced on Friday the measures which will surround Emmanuel Macron’s trip to Lyon on Monday for a ceremony in tribute to the French Resistance.
Calls to demonstrate were launched Friday in Lyon in anticipation of this visit by the Head of State. “Let’s meet many and many to welcome the monarch and his court”, tweeted Lyon Insurrection, which presents itself as an “alternative and independent media” on social networks, calling for a demonstration in front of Montluc on Monday. This account, close to the radical left, is very active in calling for wild demonstrations in the capital of Gaul against the pension reform.
A leaflet from the CGT did the same to denounce, according to the union, a “usurpation” of the legacy of the Resistance by the President of the Republic when he “has just struck a blow to the solidarity pension system set up in the post-war period. The account “Lyon in struggle” called for “a general casserole” the same day in front of the former military prison, an hour before the arrival of the head of state.
Gatherings prohibited from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The president must indeed preside over a ceremony in tribute to the French Resistance and to Jean Moulin, incarnation of the resistant hero, as the 80th anniversary of his arrest by the Gestapo approaches, in Caluire-et-Cuire, near Lyon.
He must go at 3 p.m. to the Montluc prison, where Jews and resistance fighters were detained and tortured during the Second World War, including Jean Moulin, the first president of the National Council of the Resistance (CNR). The Keeper of the Seals Éric Dupond-Moretti, the Minister of National Education Pap Ndiaye and the Secretary of State to the Minister for the Armed Forces, in charge of Veterans and Memory, Patricia Miralles, will also be present.
A security perimeter will be set up in the Montluc district by the Rhône prefecture, which indicated in a press release on Friday evening that it would involve “a certain number of traffic restrictions, in particular for motorists, pedestrians and users of public transport. commmon “. Thus, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., “processions, parades and protest rallies” will be “prohibited” there. “Several public transport lines will also be impacted” and the parking of vehicles prohibited in certain streets from the day before.
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