Thousands of people, in many cities of the country, demonstrated this Thursday night, shortly after the announcement of the use of 49.3 by the government in the National Assembly to approve the pension reform. In Paris, at least 6,000 people gathered at the Place de la Concorde. “I feel like France is wounded, damaged, humiliated by an authoritarian president of the Republic, to the contemptuous extreme,” Fabien Roussel, deputy from the North and head of the French Communist Party, analyzed on the set of BFMTV.
These demonstrations, sometimes with damage, are according to him “a spontaneous reaction that is the result of a rot caused by the government, by the President of the Republic”, continues Fabien Roussel.
“This 49.3 falls like a guillotine,” he says.
“No union asks that the garbage cans be burned”
“How can we be surprised” at such spontaneous demonstrations, therefore, asks the leader of the PCF, who nevertheless does not “support” the degradations committed this Thursday night. Fabien Roussel also states that he “condemns” them, because “they are damage to property.”
“And furthermore, no union is calling for the trash cans to be burned. No politician is calling for it to be done,” he said.
In a press release published in the afternoon after the announcement of 49.3, the inter-union effectively calls for “calm and determined actions” starting this weekend with rallies in various cities in France, before a “new great day of strikes and protests on Thursday”. , 23 of March.”
According to information from BFMTV, at least 217 people were arrested after damage and fires on the sidelines of the surprise demonstration at the Place de la Concorde in Paris. The tensions began to end at 11:00 p.m. in the capital.
Violent demonstrations broke out across France on Thursday night, such as in Rennes and Nantes, notably with mortar fire against police.
Source: BFM TV
