After the activation of 49.3 and before the debate on votes of no confidence in the government, opponents of the pension reform are using the weekend to express their anger at several rallies in the region and in Paris. In the capital, tensions between demonstrators and the police arose this Saturday, March 18, on the fields of a parade initiated by the CGT Ile-de-France, which gathered several thousand people in the south of Paris.
Departing at about 18:00 from the Place d’Italie towards the small streets of Butte-au-Caye, the demonstration assembled.”4000 people“, according to a police source. Garbage cans were set on fire, the windows of billboards and bus stops were shot at, and building barriers were used to close off streets. At around 20:00, the police intervened and fired tear gas against a group of troublemakers, 100 and 200 people, according to according to a police source in TF1/LCI who tried to build barricades and set trash cans on fire.
Due to the presence of these bandits, the organizer of the demonstration called for dispersal. On the sidelines of the demonstrations in the Place d’Italie, 81 people were arrested. Gatherings at the Place de la Concorde, as well as the Champs-Elysées, were banned on Saturday by Paris police headquarters after two evening demonstrations punctuated by incidents against the use of 49.3 to pass pension reform.
Many meetings in the region
Events took place in several places in the regions, from large to medium-sized cities: Lille, Amiens, Caen, Saint-Etienne, Roanne, Besancon, Dijon, Grenoble, Gap, Annecy, Lodev, etc. Some processions numbered several thousand people, such as, for example, in Nantes (6,000 according to the police, 15,000 according to trade unions) or Brest (from 5 to 8,000 people), with some tension. In Bordeaux, an impromptu march drew 1,900 people, according to the prefecture, and face-to-face meetings with police took place on rue Sainte-Catherine, the longest pedestrian street in Europe and very busy on this Saturday afternoon.
As for the strike, the shutdown of the nation’s largest Normandy (TotalEnergies) refinery in the Seine-Maritime began Friday night, Alexis Antonioli, manager of CGT, told AFP. This operation will take several days and should not cause immediate fuel outages at gas stations across the country. So far, the strikers have been content with blocking fuel supplies, but factories have continued to produce.
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