Approximately 120,000 protesters marched Saturday across France against the labor law, according to the Interior Ministry. The parades organized for the first time a weekend and during school holidays, enamelled incidents have significantly less mobilized as of 31 March. Twenty-six people were arrested, including nine in Paris, said the ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet. Three policemen were slightly injured in incidents in the capital, said the prefect of police in Paris, Michel Cadot.
The Inter (CGT, FO, FSU, Solidaires, UNEF, UNL, Fidl ) called for more than 200 rallies and demonstrations across France against the project that it considers too liberal. It was the sixth day of action since March 9, the third involving young people and workers, but also retirees and families. The “massive mobilization” expected is nowhere near that of the previous single day, which gathered 31 March between 390,000 and 1.2 million demonstrators.
In Rennes, where clashes between demonstrators and police occurred, the event brought together mid-day 1700 people, according to the prefecture, against 6,500 on 31 March. According to the prefecture, two CRS were injured, one deaf. A policeman was also hit by a projectile, a metal ball, launched against him. The three men were hospitalized it said. For its part, the departmental secretary of FO Fabrice Lerestif has reported 19 injured, a figure not confirmed by the prefecture that no protester had been admitted to hospital shortly before 14 pm 30. In any event, the head of FO assured that it reserved “the right to complain to police violence.”
at Nantes, the demonstrators clashed with security forces on Saturday as 2600 people showed, according to the prefecture, 15,000, according to the CGT. The security forces have repeatedly been the target of various projectiles, paving, stones, bottles and eggs. They responded by firing tear gas and making use of water hoses to prevent access to the downtown. By mid afternoon, arrived at the height of the Commerce Square, where are located many tram stops, several hundred young people erected barricades with construction barriers, throwing projectiles at police who repelled them with tear gas. Demonstrators attacked the windows of a bank branch, broke those of an agency and street furniture. Dustbins were also burned.
In Paris, between 18,000 and 20,000 protesters marched according to police, 110,000 according to unions. The procession, headed by Philippe Martinez (CGT), Jean-Claude Mailly (FO), Bernadette Groison (FSU), Eric Beynel (Solidarity) and William Martinet (UNEF), lunged to 14 h 20 instead of the Republic and arrived Place de la Nation in the late afternoon. Thugs were invited to the event.
Place de la Nation, dozens of hooded protesters dressed in dark and threw objects, including bottles, sticks and firecrackers, against CRS. Young also raised grids surrounding trees at their base. The police charged the demonstrators and threw tear gas. Until then, the procession had been enameled that an incident: a CRS was wounded in the leg at the Boulevard Beaumarchais, in the east of Paris, by throwing projectiles to 15 hours, and a person had been arrested, police said.
“we began the second month,” mobilization, “we are optimistic and determined,” said Jean-Claude Mailly shortly before the start of the procession. At his side, Philippe Martinez called for “putting the counters for a real labor code that protects workers.” “Not afraid it is not running out of steam,” said Jean-Claude Mailly, facing a mobilization that promises lower than on March 31. He recalled that in 2006, for the withdrawal of the First Employment Contract (CPE), the mobilization lasted three months, including during school holidays.
“The holidays, it weighs”
Philippe Martinez acknowledged that “the holidays, it weighs,” but stressed that “if some are not there, others who had never been are.” “Obviously, for high school students and students who are on vacation, mobilization forms change,” conceded William Martinet. “It has awakened the law, is the refusal of precariousness and social hazing. I do not think it will disappear in a few days of vacation, “he said
Among the slogans, amid a crowd of all ages, reading” Game over. – the people wake up, “while some carried placards with simply wrote” no “and that young people, many in the crowd chanted” we loose nothing. ” Stephanie, sports instructor, 38, came with her two children, 5 and 8 years old, and his mother, “three generations” to “feel what was happening” where was born the night standing. She says if happy to attend this “convergence of struggles”, a sign of “the end of a system.”
The UNEF and other student organizations and high school students will be received Monday by Manuel Valls after having been on Wednesday by several ministers. Meanwhile, the bill carried by Myriam El Khomri continues its legislative path. Members of the Social Affairs Committee concluded today its review, making changes, especially on the most controversial measures: clarification of redundancies, said agreements “offensive” referendums business …
a project that, even amended, is deemed “too liberal” by his critics, who fear increased job insecurity. The text will be debated in the Chamber from May 3 The Inter keep pressure account by then with a “new day of strikes and demonstrations” on April 28th.
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