Labor law: a strong mobilization glazed violence – Le Figaro

VIDEO – Between 270,000 and 1.2 million demonstrators were reported Thursday by the police and by unions to challenge the law Khomri El

the mobilization against the labor law Thursday in calling protesters unions (CGT, FO, FSU and Solidaires) and several youth organizations (UNEF, Fidl and UNL) was up compared to 9 March. This is the first success for the unions, particularly the CGT Philippe Martinez who plays very big. The center of Montreuil is always the first French union in private. But she has faced over the last 2012 elections many setbacks, especially around the departure of its former Secretary General, Thierry Lepaon.

“We are building a balance of power the government should move back and forth on the text “

in this context, and while many predict that the reformist line of the CFDT might be necessary when new elections 2017, it is essential for the CGT to regain legitimacy. Dates for new days of action, set at the end of this mobilization, 5 and 9 April, are not accidental. They fall aptly to plump troops organization just before the opening of the 51st congress of the union in Marseille, where Philippe Martinez delivers its mandate in.

The Parisian procession started from Italian place in early afternoon in the pouring rain. At its head, Philippe Martinez (CGT), Bernadette Groison (FSU), Jean-Claude Mailly (FO) and William Martinet (UNEF). As in previous days events, it is the students from the universities of Paris VIII and Paris-I that were most present. According to William Swift, president of the UNEF, “this is an important mobilization with many young people, employees and officials. It opens on March 31 a new sequence in the opposition against the proposed El Khomri law. We are building a strong relationship with the government has to move back and forth on the text. “

” It makes no sense to work more to earn less. Think of it as a left government that is maneuvering disgusts us even more “

On the signs that dotted the procession read:” Labour Law – Insecurity in perpetuity ” “We do not want to lose our life to win,” “1916: cannon fodder, 2016: flesh bosses” or “the night is for b … not to work.” Samira and Sapphire, schoolgirls in the eighteenth, “it makes no sense to work more to earn less. Think of it as a left government that is maneuvering disgusts us more. “

Alma, also high school in Bondy,” this government is the caviar left. Everything for the rich, not the poor. ” Bernard, an employee at Air France deplores this “obvious will of fire” that cache, according to him, this “unjust law”. “As to work sixty hours a week, no thank you!” Added a conductive RATP, referring to a draft of the bill, which was leaked in the press but has since been abandoned.

This mobilization was also marked by strikes in transport (SNCF, Air France …), the Eiffel tower, at EDF, in the public, the press and dozens of blocks of high schools and universities. The day was also punctuated by violence, with about forty arrests and about twenty wounded policemen.

In the morning, the Paris demonstration of the students – the fourth since early March – was a new electric time. As in previous weeks, police and CRS came under missile throwing. In the procession of a thousand young people, a group of thirty students, sometimes hooded and armed with wooden bars, regularly attacked the police. They also targeted banks, bus shelters and shop windows. There was a twenty inquiries totaling Paris. Same show in Rennes, Grenoble, Nantes, Marseille and Toulouse.

The spokesman of the government, Stéphane Le Foll, called “Everybody quiet” to “not give the opportunity to some break or have violence. ”