An interministerial crisis unit must meet again at 5 p.m. to take stock of the situation.
The National Rally presidential candidate Marine Le Pen deplored on Saturday that “the legitimate social demands” of the demonstrators of October 17 “have once again been taken hostage by the extreme left”, particularly targeting her LFI opponent Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
“Legitimate social demands have once again been taken hostage by the far left and the speeches of Jean-Luc Mélenchon's deputies who, by legitimizing violence, by considering order as oppression and disorder as a right, seek to plunge the country into chaos,” she assured on X.
The police used water cannons and drowned the scene in a thick cloud of tear gas to repel the radical elements in Bordeaux, who were erecting barricades a little further away, the procession of demonstrators having been able to resume its parade.
Boris, a maintenance agent in the medico-social sector, was a “yellow vest” from Act I in 2018. He is happy to see the movement reborn. “When it stopped in 2019-2020, we took a hit to the back of the head. The high school students showed us that the fight was not over. We must also continue it for them, it is a reason for hope. »
The leader of La France insoumise and candidate for the presidential election Jean-Luc Mélenchon denounced on
The mayor of Marseille, Benoît Payan (DVG), “demanded accountability” for the organization of policing on the sidelines of demonstrations on Saturday in the city, after incidents, including the intrusion of “thugs” into the town hall. “I demand accountability, because I am not going to leave things as they are. I want to know what happened. I want to know why, in this city, people were able to break things with impunity,” declared the mayor during a press briefing at town hall.
The police used a water cannon in Lyon against demonstrators and hooded individuals gathered as part of the “against the high cost of living” movement.
The president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, estimated on
A branch of the Lyon tourist office was ransacked and set on fire on Saturday on the sidelines of the movement against “the high cost of living”. The arson occurred on one side of Place Bellecour where groups of hooded young people were throwing projectiles and fireworks mortars against the police.
More than 3,000 people demonstrated on Saturday in Tunis against the high cost of living and to demand respect for freedoms at the call of several organizations, including the UGTT trade union center, and opposition parties.
The demonstration announced in Bordeaux as part of the mobilization of October 17 quickly degenerated on Saturday afternoon into clashes between radical individuals and the police. An impressive procession of several thousand people, mixing students, political and union activists and farmers with numerous individuals dressed in black and hooded, set off before time.
The police used a water cannon on Saturday in Paris to repel demonstrators near Place de la République. Before that, they had used tear gas to respond to several hundred demonstrators, most of them masked and dressed in black, some of whom fired fireworks.
The Paris police headquarters on Friday banned undeclared gatherings and demonstrations in several sensitive areas of the capital. The authorities have also modified the routes of the two main processions for security reasons.
Emmanuel Macron launched a call for “calm and respect” from Brussels on Friday. The President of the Republic recalled that the right to demonstrate must be exercised with respect for people and property, without “insulting” or “breaking”.
