Mobilization of May 1: ransacked shops

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2023-05-02 17:53:01

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H. Puffeney, A. Hanquet, O. Martin, V. Lucas, N. Baker, France 3 Regions, Y. Kadouch

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The mobilization of May Day is presented as a success by the trade unions. It was nevertheless tarnished by numerous overflows. 406 police and gendarmes were injured, and 61 demonstrators, according to Interior figures.

Leave no tag, no trace. The cleaning agents are on deck, for a cleaning operation in the capital, after the incidents of Monday, May 1. Groups of individuals have attacked signs, banks, insurance companies, franchises, symbols for them of capitalism, like a printing shop. For the managers, the most urgent thing is to suck up the broken glass, and to put boards in place of the windows.

Long process with insurance

Dozens of signs were targeted, under the gaze of incredulous passers-by. It will take 30,000 euros for a branch manager to change his armored windows. A breakage according to him so frequent, that his insurance could soon refuse to insure him. In his misfortune, he considers himself lucky, the windows have resisted. Private cars were also burned. For all these victims, now begin long procedures with their insurance, to obtain compensation.

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