According to the authorities, 125,000 people participated in the national day, answering the call of seven unions – CGT , FO, FSU, Solidaires, UNEF, UNL and LDIFs. The CGT advance it, the figure of 1.3 million demonstrators.
The differences do not stop there. Police and unions also oppose the “dynamics” of the movement. Police said the mobilization was at the national level, lower than at the peak of 31 March, where she had raised 400,000 protesters nationwide.
For its part the CGT, with its 1 3 million demonstrators is the mobilization just above the end of March, when she had counted 1.2 million on the streets in France. It is true that the central promised mobilization “huge” to demonstrate that the challenge of the work Bill does not weaken
The only point of agreement between police and unions. In Paris, they agree that participation was the strongest since the beginning of the mobilization there three months. The prefecture has counted between 75,000 and 80,000 protesters against 27,000 on 31 March. FO, which then dénombrait by 160,000 in claims Tuesday with United, one million
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in the capital, the day was marked by violent clashes with police shortly after the procession started from the Place d’Italie.
“There were hordes of violent protesters” , said Bernard Cazeneuve, invited on the set of France 2 on Tuesday night. The interior minister announced that “ [not accept] there are savages who can hold about” like “a policeman shot” or “policemen France hates you” , heard by him at the event Tuesday.
Faced with fears of clashes with police “ about 130 people” had been forbidden to participate Tuesday in Paris, at the national event. According to the police prefect of Paris, Michel Cadot, there were people already arrested during previous demonstrations against the proposed labor code reform law.
The labor law is also examined since Monday to the Senate, the majority of right intends to step up the liberal nature of the text
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- Violent clashes in Paris
in the streets of the capital, clashes with security forces were intense in the afternoon, according to journalists World present in the procession. stores storefronts were vandalized.
The police headquarters in Paris, who called on Twitter demonstrators in “dissociate thugs” reports fifty-eight those arrested, especially after throwing projectiles from “hundreds of hooded people”
public Assistance. – Hôpitaux de Paris (AP -HP) has announced plans to “complaint” after “unacceptable attack” hospital Necker sick Children, vandalized the sidelines of the event.
the health Minister, Marisol Touraine, also denounced the social network a “unbearable thugs attack” against pediatric hospital. “Ashamed” , she said, bringing her “support to health professionals mobilized to patients’ .
In the area Port Royal, the “individuals entered on a site to make pallets before throwing them on the security forces’ , which had to intervene, said the prefecture.
“the water cannon was used” near the Duroc station, she still said to “to enable the security forces who were taken since several minutes to extricate “.
the police fired tear gas and charged protesters who threw projectiles at the cry of ” Paris, standing, raises up ! “ or ” Everyone hates the police. ” The CRS cars have also been targeted by protestors
At the Invalides, where is arrived under heavy police escort, the procession of the head, the tension builds again. Of protesters tear tar to make shots, while the police use a water cannon.
the prefecture also counted at least forty wounded, twenty-nine policemen and eleven demonstrators. According to the journalists of the World present in the procession, two men were injured at the crossroads of Raspail and Montparnasse boulevards. One of them was hit by a bullet in the back, which ignited, according to one of the journalists who attended the scene. One protester, Lawrence R., tells of seeing a “horizontal shooting breast height” . The projectile “has stuck in his neck for a few seconds before detaching. The guy fell down as if he had taken a truncheon “, he said.
- Opponents come from all over France
According to the unions, between 600 and 700 buses transported demonstrators in the capital for the parade. In the Parisian procession, our reporters went to meet several demonstrators from all over France.
So Gweltaz and Laurent, nurse anesthetists, came from Brest to denounce the” human and social decline “represented in their labor law:
“We came to carry the move higher. We want the withdrawal of this law, which is unfair. We want it does not pass. It will impact the quality of care for our patients. Expected changes to the penalties and mandatory rest periods. “
Sebastian, 37, himself is a worker in metallurgy in Auvergne: ” I find it unacceptable that the police dislocate the demo. It will strengthen people to demonstrate, on the contrary, it will not discourage! And then there are several forms of movement, the region also blocks … But it is disappointing that it has happened like this. We have the right to demonstrate. We are in democracy and for me that word away. “
” We had to be in Paris for the demonstration scale, but in Toulon we also held to mobilize. In my union office, who I keep in touch, they were two thousand to show “ says Philippe, state worker at the Department of Defense.
Lauren, history teacher and french at a vocational college, came to all Parisian events, except one: “I asked for strike days, so I lost salary days. But it is less problematic to me to strike for others. I think the number of demonstrators is not representative of the number of people involved. The right to strike is not easy to take for those who are in CSD for example. “
Others, like Bruno, heritage officer at the National Forestry Office, calling for a general strike to ” pressure “ on the government “in fact the socialist governments are always right, so this time it’s done, but I hope we can create a movement that will affect the next election. “
” Violence or not, no matter how wrong we always have, we, the CGT. Tonight there will be only the rioters on TV, it will ignore the millions of people who are there, “ regrets his side André, retired electrician 73 years.
- Mobilization in other major cities
According to the interior Ministry, 50,000 people marched elsewhere in France, and fifteen people were arrested.
“young people in the galley, the old in misery, this society we do not want” , chanted the demonstrators in Lyon where the prefecture counted 3800 participants, the CGT 10 000. They were 1,900 in Rennes according to the prefecture, according to unions 5000
A parade was held Tuesday morning in Marseille. the CGT has put the figure of 140 000 participants, when the prefecture recorded 5000.
in Toulouse, the prefecture said in 6000 the number of demonstrators who marched in the morning. union side, there was talk about 30 000 people, according to La Dépêche du Midi .
Limoges, a snail operation of the Road Directorate officers Central West, conducted as part of the day of action against the labor law, has caused 40 kilometers plug this morning, reports Limousin France 3.
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