A mobilization for the “symbol”. A hundred demonstrators protesting against the pension reform gathered Friday morning near Mont-Saint-Michel, access to which was denied to them by the police.
The demonstrators were blocked a few kilometers from the Mount to which they wanted to go, without even being able to access the car parks from where the long footbridge that connects the site listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site to the mainland.
“It’s a symbol, it unites the Normans and the Bretons and then Mont-Saint-Michel is known throughout the world. We don’t necessarily need to be many, we are 200 or 300 here, that marks the blow, “said one of the demonstrators, Jean-Jacques Soutif, 53-year-old maintenance coordinator, dressed in an orange chasuble with the logo. CFDT.
“Massacre at the Macroneuse”
Waving flags of the various unions, the demonstrators threw some smoke bombs. Some also gave a small improvised concert with guitar and drum.
On a sign, one could read “macronneuse massacre” with a caricature of the head of state, a chainsaw in his hand on which is written 49.3, sawing a white panel where the word “retirement” in red is torn.
This demonstration at the call of the inter-union aims, according to one of the participants named Murielle Piquet, 61-year-old public finance controller, to remind “that the movement is not running out of steam, contrary to what is said “. “It would give them reason (to the government) to show themselves more, to go out more, that’s why you have to let go,” added Inès Labiche, 24 years old and unemployed.