The mobilization continues. This Thursday, on the occasion of the eleventh day of mobilization against the pension reform, about 2 million people gathered in France according to the unions and 570,000 according to the Ministry of the Interior. The important participation, however, is less since March 28 when more than 2 million protesters according to the CGT and 740,000 according to the police took to the streets.
On March 7, the day of “paralyzed France”, 3,500,000 people had gathered nationwide according to the CGT and 1,280,000 according to the police, a record since the beginning of the mobilization.
In Paris, 400,000 people demonstrated this Thursday according to the CGT and 57,000 according to the police headquarters. Figures lower than the last day of mobilization on March 28 (450,000 and 93,000) and twice lower than the record of March 23 (800,000 and 119,000).
Same trend in many cities
In Brittany, and more specifically in Rennes, the usual stronghold of the protest, the prefecture only had 8,500 demonstrators and the unions 20,000.
The same tendency to run out in other western metropolises, such as Nantes (15,000 to 50,000 people) and Brest (10,000 to 18,000), but also in the south, in Nice (2,400 to 20,000) and Marseille (10,000 to 170,000), or even in the center of Clermont-Ferrand (7,500 to 20,000).
Some cities, however, resisted and showed a turnout of the same order as on March 28, notably Lyon (13,000 to 30,000) and Perpignan (4,700 to 15,000).
Source: BFM TV
