“Yesterday we couldn’t come, so we thought we’d catch up today! “Run Thomas and Remy, who came to ‘protest against the unfair pension reform.’ On the evening of Friday, March 17, two Parisian students joined a spontaneous gathering at the emblematic Place de la Concorde in Paris. The call was launched on social media and streamed all day on Instagram or Twitter after a rough first night the previous day marked by many frictions.
No flag or chasuble in place, in contrast to the movements organized in the morning on the Ring Road or the Gare de Lyon under the leadership of certain trade unions. About 4,000 people, mostly young people, gathered from 6 pm in an electrifying atmosphere.
Sam, 28, from Le Bourget (Saint-Saint-Denis), is also unhappy with a government-backed reform project, such as using 49.3 to speed up its adoption.
“I feel like I’m being insulted”
“This project has become the last straw. There, from 49.3, a whale breaks a camel’s back. I feel like I’m being insulted. I’m really wondering why I voted for Macron in 2022, storm this carpenter in finishing. At my age, my back already hurts from carrying heavy things. But apart from my personal case, I am mobilizing for colleagues who are in their fifties and who suffer from tendinitis and back problems. I’m not the most complaining. »
The same resentment comes from Carla, 30, who is finishing her PhD in Paris. She was there the day before too. This Friday night, after scouring Twitter closely, she decided to rejoin Concorde Square with her friend Zachary: “As soon as we saw it was starting to get crowded, we hurried,” she says. “They are mocking us! So far, I have already participated in several demonstrations. I will continue because I believe in a joint initiative referendum. This is what gives me hope that the project will be abandoned. »
Zachary, 32, a tax lawyer, admits he “doesn’t have a profile of a protester. But I want to show that anger is interprofessional and affects the entire population. We must stand together against this reform. »
“They could have accepted the text by proposing a fairer reform”
Matthew, 38, a Paris-based computer designer, is one of the people 49.3 pushed out onto the street. “This is the first time I came to the demonstration. The government’s contempt for the people pushed me to do it tonight,” he admits, convinced that the government could have done differently: “They could have passed the text by offering fairer reform, printing less for the poor, and finding money. elsewhere, he says. I don’t know how it will develop there, I’m very scared. »
Ten meters from the obelisk, 52-year-old Emmanuel watches the crowd benevolently. “I find this to be a pretty good kid! “, he launches. A few seconds later, CRS attacks in front of his eyes a group of thugs busy destroying the fences of the monument. As the crowd gathers around the fire, many people in hoods, glasses and masks chant: “Everyone hates the police.”
Some find cobblestones, and a demonstrator appears with a card with the image of Emmanuel Macron. The crowd gets carried away. Macron at the stake! Macron at the stake! demonstrators shout in unison. “It won’t hurt him,” Mathieu, 42, laughs in front of the stage. This trainer came with his wife Dorothea. “49.3 is a shame. We can’t let that happen, launches the last one. If it has to degenerate for the government to understand, it will degenerate. »
Away from the center of the gathering, Marie, a 24-year-old student at the Sorbonne, laments the turn of events as fireworks go off. “If it overflows, we discredit the entire movement,” she exhales. Next to her, Flavien, wearing a cap on his head, “understands” anger. “Everything explodes. For a month and a half, millions of people spoke out calmly. They didn’t listen to us, he decides. What should we do? »
Around 20:00, the security forces began to disperse the crowd with tear gas canisters and grenades to break out of the encirclement. By 21:00 12 people were detained.
Source: Le Parisien
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