From peaks to ground, in four days. The protesters against the pension reform were significantly fewer this Saturday for the seventh day of mobilization. According to the Ministry of the Interior, 368,000 people have hit the sidewalks in France.
“The days are not compared, they add up”
A figure that is the lowest since the beginning of the mobilization and in sharp decline compared to the 963,000 protesters on Saturday, February 11 or the record of March 7 (1.28 million). For its part, the CGT has counted more than one million people, compared to 2.5 million on February 11 and 3.5 million on March 7.
After reaching record highs on Tuesday, the social movement has fallen back to its lowest level. “The days are not compared, they add up,” however, justified the general secretary of Unsa, Laurent Escure, at the head of the Parisian march that brought together 48,000 people according to the authorities and 300,000 according to the CGT, compared to 500,000 respectively. and 93,000 on Saturday, February 11.
Between 7,000 and 80,000 demonstrators in Marseille
However, the protesters were only 7,000 in Marseille, according to the Bouches-du-Rhône prefecture, compared to 30,000 on Tuesday and 12,000 on February 11. Even the CGT, which had never counted less than 100,000 participants in the city of Marseille, this time claimed only 80,000.
Identical situation in Toulouse, where the procession brought together 10,000 people according to the prefecture, 45,000 according to the organizers, the lowest figures since the beginning of the year in the pink city.
The same in Saint-Étienne (2,350 to 8,000) and Strasbourg (1,300 to 5,000), but also in medium-sized cities such as Tarbes (2,500 to 6,000), Roanne (2,000 to 4,000), Arras (1,400 to 2,000) or Montauban (1,000 to 5000), among others.
In this widespread decline, some cities still show slightly higher scores than on February 16, such as Perpignan (3,800 to 8,000) and Nice (2,300 to 8,000).
Source: BFM TV
