after the decisions of the Constitutional Council which validates the reform, spontaneous demonstrations in several large cities of France

Demonstrations in several cities in France

After the Constitutional Council largely validated the pension reform, protests formed in several French cities, including Nantes, Lyon, Toulouse and Marseille.

In Lille, a procession formed on the Place de la République before criss-crossing the streets. According The voice of the North, about five hundred demonstrators are currently marching in rue Solférino. Gatherings were also underway in Vannes, Lorient, Pontivy, Ploërmel and the Palace, according to West France.

In the East, a torchlight procession is organized Friday evening in Troyes, reports Eastern lightning, while hundreds of demonstrators march through the streets of Strasbourg and Mulhouse. According Latest news from Alsacethey were a hundred demonstrators in Strasbourg, forty in Mulhouse.

In Lyon, rallies are punctuated by clashes between demonstrators and the police, according to News Lyonwhich reports tear gas jets in the 1^is arrondissement. In Louhans (Saône-et-Loire), around twenty demonstrators placed themselves, for more than an hour, on the pedestrian crossings in order to slow down traffic, reports the Journal of Saone-et-Loire.

In the South, in Toulon, a demonstration, at the call of the Var inter-union, was to link the Place de la Liberté to that of Human Rights, according to The Marseillaise. In Avignon, the gathering scatters in the streets.