A few hundred people gathered this Sunday March 19 in the heart of Paris at the end of the afternoon. The demonstrators chanted for the fourth consecutive evening slogans targeting Emmanuel Macron and the police. They reject the use of 49.3 to pass the pension reform.
Started around 6 p.m. in Les Halles, a very commercial and busy district, the rally took place peacefully, according to an AFP journalist on the spot. According to a police source, the rally, which was attended by 350 people, had not been declared. An attempt to leave in a wild procession was prevented by the police and 17 people were arrested.
” We’re here to show up on the street for the act 4. NOTWe are young workers. Dso, vsin’is not necessarily easy to be there every evenings. We put ourselves in danger vis-à-vis our hierarchy, but hey…Pon a sunday evening, it’s pretty cool and Saturday too, it’s cool. At least the weekendhe there is a crowd »explains a protester. ” We are notasse in a street. I see a lot of people cough, SO, I guess he had a pshort burst of gas (tear gas). Mam good, It is enough usual eh! “Notes another protester.
We have a dissatisfaction to express and we will not hesitate to do so until the end, until the withdrawal of the reform…
Pension reform: words of protesters in the center of Paris
The capital has experienced three evenings of tension since the announcement on Thursday of the recourse by Elisabeth Borne to article 49.3 of the Constitution which allows the adoption of a text without a vote, except for a motion of censure. On Thursday and Friday, several thousand people had expressed their anger place de la Concordeleading the police headquarters to ban until Tuesday any gathering in this square, located very close to the National Assembly, at the foot of the Champs-Élysées, and which remained under police surveillance on Sunday.
Saturday, at the call of the CGT Ile-de-France, 4,000 people, according to the police, had converged on Place d’Italie where incidents had broken out.
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