2023-05-01 18:08:31
Several hundred thousand people marched across France on Monday for May Day. According to the CGT, there are even 2.3 million opponents of the pension reform who were in the street on Monday, including 550,000 in Paris. For the Ministry of the Interior, it would rather be a question of 782,000 demonstrators throughout France and 112,000 in the capital.
The police notably counted 16,300 demonstrators in Caen (40,000 according to the CGT), 8,700 demonstrators in Strasbourg (15,000), 7,300 in Lille (15,000), 11,000 in Marseille (130,000), 13,500 in Toulouse (100,000), 15,000 in Brest (33,000) and 14,000 in Clermont-Ferrand (25,000).
“This May Day is one of the strongest of the social movement”
“It’s a big May Day. It is not a last stand, it is the challenge of the working world to this reform, ”rejoiced the leader of the CFDT Laurent Berger. “This May 1 is one of the strongest of the social movement”, added the general secretary of the CGT Sophie Binet.
The last united parade with the eight main unions dates back to 2009, in the face of the financial crisis (the CGT had counted nearly 1.2 million demonstrators, the police 456,000). In 2002 (900,000 to 1.3 million people), the unions had also united to “block” Jean-Marie Le Pen.
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