2023-04-18 03:47:37
Opponents of the pension reform have once again made their dissatisfaction heard. Emmanuel Macron’s televised address on Monday evening was thus greeted everywhere in France by concerts of pans by demonstrators determined to show that they did not wish to listen to him. These actions were sometimes followed by wild demonstrations interspersed with damage.
In Paris, protesters began shortly before 8 p.m. to make noise by banging on pots or pans. Several hundred people notably gathered in front of the town hall of the 10th arrondissement. The demonstrators displayed numerous flags of the LFI, NPA, PCF, EELV parties or even the Attac organization or the CGT, and chanted “Macron resignation”, or “Paris rise up”.
Protesters in the Old Port of Marseille
This rally then gave way to three wild demonstrations in the capital, with a total of some 2,000 demonstrators, said the prefecture, which had identified 16 garbage fires at the end of the evening, all of them extinguished.
Several hundred demonstrators gathered in the Old Port of Marseille before heading to the town hall, some chanting there too “Macron resignation”. Residents supported protesters by banging pots from their balconies.
In Lyon according to the prefecture, several incidents occurred shortly after 9 p.m. after the rally in front of the town hall, from where several hundred demonstrators left to walk the streets of Croix-Rousse. Some forced a door of the town hall of the 1st arrondissement before entering the building and tagging the walls of the entrance. Others set fire to the front of the borough’s municipal police station and at the same time, a fire broke out in the basement of an adjoining building. On the course of this wild demonstration, projectiles were thrown and fireworks fired at the police who then responded with tear gas.
Garbage fires in Rennes and Caen
In Saint-Etienne, small groups continued to wander through the city center after a demonstration of around 300 people, according to the prefecture, which reported tags, burnt bins and broken windows, including a bank branch. . Garbage fires also enamelled the wanderings of demonstrators in Rennes and Caen. In Nantes and Angers, undeclared demonstrations also took place after the speech.
In Strasbourg, after the concert of pans which lasted about an hour in the city center, a few hundred people improvised barricades in the middle of the streets using garbage containers or construction objects to block the road. to the police. The security forces repeatedly used tear gas. In total, the anti-globalization NGO Attac, which had launched a call for “casserolades” in front of town halls, has identified “more than 300 gatherings” in the country.
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