For this fourth day of inter-union mobilization against the pension reform that the government is advancing, the French were called, for the first time, to demonstrate on a Saturday. The unions hoped to keep up the pressure on the executive, less than a week before the end of the debates in the National Assembly, waiting to potentially “paralyze France” from March 7, the date of arrival of the bill in the Senate. . .
Bet successful? Check the evolution of the number of protesters nationwide in our graph below. If the mobilization of this Saturday, February 11, did not break records, however, it advances – whatever the origin – compared to the demonstrations organized on Tuesday, with between 963,000 and 2.5 million people mobilized in France.
Locally, the trend is not exactly the same among the major cities in France. In the following infographicFind out the number of protesters in the main French cities, as well as their evolution compared to the first three days of mobilization.
In Paris, for example, the mobilization reached an unprecedented level according to the police, with 93,000 demonstrators, when the unions had 500,000, as many as at the end of January. In Toulouse, the situation is more contrasted: the number of protesters increased this Saturday according to the organizers, who count 100,000 people on the street -a record- when the police confirm a stagnation of the figures (25,000).
On the other hand, in Marseille, the unions and the authorities agree that this Saturday represents the day with the least mobilization since the start of the social protest, with 12,000 to 140,000 people mobilized in the streets of the Marseillaise city.
Source: BFM TV
