demonstration before Emmanuel Macron’s arrival in Savines-le-Lac to present the “water plan”

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«The conflict over pensions is not over“, insisted on Wednesday Philippe Assaiante, co-secretary general of the CGT des Hautes-Alpes. JEFF PACHOUD / AFP

About a hundred demonstrators gathered this Thursday morning in this village in the Hautes-Alpes, at the call of the CGT in particular. Two people were arrested.

The unions had announced it, they kept their word. About a hundred demonstrators gathered this Thursday morning in Savines-le-Lac (Hautes-Alpes), where Emmanuel Macron must present the government’s “water plan” at 12:30 p.m.

The welcoming committee, which was brandishing union or peasant confederation flags, was blocked by the gendarmes at the start of the morning. Sitting on the road, the demonstrators chanted “Macron resignation“, before the atmosphere tensed and the police pushed them back out of the Savines-le-Lac bridge, where traffic was very disrupted.

A young man was arrested and placed in police custody for contempt and rebellion, AFP learned from a police source. A little later, AFP journalists saw an older man taken away, handcuffed, by the police and apparently wounded in the forehead. His arrest was confirmed by police sources.

Others attempted to unfurl a bannerSainte Soline Macron make war on us“, in solidarity with the demonstrators mobilized against the mega-basins in the Deux Sèvres, before being forced to join the group of demonstrators. The gendarmes, deployed in large numbers, removed the demonstrators from the field of vision of motorists at the entrance to the village, but the official processions were nevertheless greeted by boos at the end of the morning. Calm returned, the demonstrators sang slogans against the pension reform.

The CGT had announced that it was planning “a welcome”

For the CGT, the President of the Republic seeks to open a new political sequence, making people forget the pension reform. For Philippe Assaiante, co-secretary general of the CGT des Hautes-Alpes, Emmanuel Macron will “drown the fish in the basin” in “changing the subject». «The conflict over pensions is not over“, he insisted on Wednesday on BFM DICI. The CGT branch of the Hautes-Alpes had announced that it was planning “obviously a welcometo the Head of State. “We’re not gonna let it happen and roll out a red carpet“, had added Philippe Aissant.

On its Facebook page, the CGT des Hautes-Alpes had launched a call for mobilization this Thursday, from 10 a.m.: “By car, on foot, by helicopter, by paraglider, by canoe, by poodle. Let’s invade Macron and make some noise!“. On the side of the CFDT, the union was also planning a demonstration. “We will still try to challenge himassured Michel Bothorel, General Secretary of the Haute-Alpine branch. We are a small department but we know how to mobilize».



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