IMAGES / VIDEOS – Between 16,000 and 70,000 demonstrators took part, Sunday afternoon, the traditional parade in the capital. Very quickly, tensions arose between demonstrators and security forces resulting in 10 arrests and making two wounded.
The Parisian Parade May 1st, who lunged Sunday afternoon from Place de la Bastille, was completed late in the day instead of the Nation. Between 16,000 and 17,000 protestors according to police, 70.000 according to the CGT, attended the rally.
Approximately 84,000 protesters were reported in all in France by the Ministry of Interior. Last year, May 1st brought together 110,000 people, according to the CGT, 76,000 according to police everywhere in France, from 9000 to 12,000 in Paris.
Multiple voltage episodes
A demonstrator faces the security forces on Sunday in Paris, under clouds of tear gas <. / span> Photo Credits: MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP 
Party shortly after 15 pm, the Parisian procession quickly experienced several interruptions due to tensions between some demonstrators and police. Several journalists reported that the procession was stopped shortly before 16 hours boulevard Diderot , by a cordon of CRS. A group of demonstrators located in procession head launched projectiles (cartons collected the garbage, bottles) on the police shouting, “Everybody hates the police.” CRS responded with tear gas, before calm returns.
At 4:25 p.m., the CRS charged on the boulevard Diderot to disperse these groups, among whom one banner proclaimed “Let us ungovernable “. CRS were joined by police officers in riot gear. The BAC was also well visible. After their intervention, the calm is temporary income, just disturbed by the slogans and whistles. The procession was divided in two by the police.
Avenue Daumesnil already, CRS had been whistled and booed by dozens of protesters, some highly virulent, shouting “Break you!” or “outside the police!”. Some young people were equipped with helmets attached to their bag.
Outside the procession of head , thousands more demonstrators marched peacefully before being blocked by a cordon of CRS boulevard Diderot. For this crowd, another slogan summed up the mood: “Withdrawal, withdrawal of labor law. Neither amendable nor negotiable “, echoing the slogans chanted in the parades that took place earlier in other cities of France.
Ten people were arrested announced the prefect of police of Paris, nine for throwing projectiles at police Place de la Nation. According to a previous announcement of the police headquarters, the tenth was arrested at Bastille for wearing prohibited weapon. “ Two people were injured slightly : A protester was hit in the leg and one CRS has received a shot in the jaw,” said the prefect Michel Cadot
Allied Trade Unions against the labor law
Earlier, we observed that once is not custom, CGT and FO, separated since 1947, marched side by side for the first time in seven years. The cause of this alliance of convenience? Opposition to the labor law that united for almost three months and seven events. A slogan, Place de la Bastille, summed up the mood of the participants: “Withdrawal, withdrawal of labor law. Neither amendable nor negotiable “, echoing the slogans chanted in the parades that took place earlier in other cities of France
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Jean-Claude Mailly, general secretary of FO and his counterpart from the CGT, Philippe Martinez, led the demonstration to demand “social progress”. Leaders of FSU, Solidaires and student organizations (UNEF) and high school (UNL and LDIFs) were also present.
“I think the government can always withdraw the law if he listens to public opinion, if he listens to the mobilization,” said Philippe Martinez told reporters. “In the majority of the program, there was no reform of labor law, there was not registered he had to break the rights of employees. Members who are part of that majority will be accountable, “he added. “The government should not turn a deaf ear to the mobilization. We are there for the Labour Act is withdrawn, “said echoing Bernadette Groison, No. 1 of the FSU.
Bernadette Groison FSU, Philippe Martinez CGT and Jean-Claude Mailly of FO, marched behind a common barrier Photo credits:. MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP
Several thousand province demonstrators
demonstrations and rallies have already been held in the provinces during the morning.
According to France Info, 12,000 demonstrators counted by the organizers to Toulouse and 1800 according to the police. In other cities, they account between 2000 (police) and 4000 (unions) to Bordeaux , a thousand Tours as Nancy 700 to Dijon 600 Orleans 900 Limoges , Clermont-Ferrand and the same number in Périgueux 400 Brest and Mulhouse 300 Cherbourg and Nice , from 1900 ( police) and 5000 (organizers) to Nantes hundreds Marseille , 950 (police) and 2000 (organizers) to Lille 2000 Lyon 1200 Grenoble .
Rennes , several hundred young people invaded in mid-day a cinema downtown, shortly after the arrival of the event in which they had participated, causing the evacuation of all its customers movies.
The official procession was attended among 2,000 people, according to police, and 3500 according to CGT. Several hundred youths, some masked, have at one time stopped the parade to conduct industrial action against “police violence” on a footbridge over the Vilaine, near which a student protester 20 years was seriously injured by a projectile during Thursday’s demonstration and finally lost the use of one eye. Having painted red bridge, they tagged “Mutilate Police” on the premises before leaving with the procession shouting: “It’s blindingly obvious, the police mutilated, police kills!”
. for their part, the reformist trade unions (CFDT, CFTC and UNSA and FAGE for students) organized round tables, this Sunday morning, one on labor law.
Warning against violence
New Caledonia, Prime Minister Manuel Valls sent a strong warning to any “thugs”, calling on organizers of the protests of the day to “take their responsibilities.” Indeed, the record of the last event, Thursday, April 28, reported 214 arrests and 78 police officers injured. A young man in Rennes also lost vision in one eye. Saturday, April 30, the Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has sent instructions to the prefects on measures to avoid overflows.
Meanwhile, the CGT denounced the “repression”, she said , union activists, while the Left Party called Saturday “accountable” to Bernard Cazeneuve denouncing the “escalating violence” police. As the general secretary of FO, he stressed that Sunday on iTV, the difficulty of controlling the “thugs” in the margin of events. “We can not protect the avenue, the demonstration is protected as such.” However, “the police do their job,” he estimated
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unrepresentative unions
on May 1 this year takes a special turn with the advent of motion Night stand, launched the evening of 31 March, the day of the biggest mobilization against the labor law.
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Sunday, union officials are scheduled to visit Republic square. Thursday night, Philippe Martinez y intervened for the first time, “the CGT values are compatible with night stand,” he proclaimed. But according to a survey by the Institute for Odoxa The Parisien, published Saturday, April 30, 72% of French believe that union action to defend the interests of employees is ineffective. Are they in line with the employees? Only 16% of French say “yes.” As for Night stand, it is plebiscited than 17% of French.
Agnes Verdier-Molinié, director of iFRAP, liberal think tank, “this situation (blocking to the Labour Act Ed) demonstrates union representation of breath (…) the public feels vaguely that our unions are the supporters of the status quo and the status quo. In all reforms, they defend their sectoral pensions and are even playing one against the other “
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the work bill will be discussed in the national Assembly from Tuesday. 5000 amendments were tabled.
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