Several hundred people demonstrated across France this Friday at the call of Youth for Climate, a French offshoot of the school strike movement for the climate launched by the young Swedish Greta Thunberg.
Mobilizations are also planned for Saturday.
In Rennes, for example, around 400 people, mainly young people, took part in the march for the climate under the sun on Friday afternoon, according to AFP journalists.
Among the signs, "The caps are cooked", "The planet you prefer it blue or well cooked" or even "Let's stop fucking our seas".
Just over two weeks before the first round of the presidential election, many demonstrators denounced the virtual absence of issues related to the climate crisis in the debate.
"There is not enough environmental awareness among the candidates," regretted Yoann Leray, 20, a biology student.
"No Planet B"
“Everyone needs to make an effort to save the planet.
It is important to mobilize (for the elections) because the president can make important decisions,” adds Lucas Tami, 18, a student at the National Institute of Applied Sciences.
Other gatherings took place in Grenoble, Strasbourg, Saint-Brieuc, Tours, Nantes or Pau, according to videos posted on social networks.
📣 For the climate the youth is there in number in Strasbourg ✊ Let's change the system now!
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— Olivier Marchand (@OlivierM2019) March 25, 2022
In Paris, there were 1,600, according to the prefecture, marching behind a banner "2018-2022: we have grown, our anger too", in reference to the year when the young Swedish muse of the global youth climate movement had launched its Friday school strike to protest against the lack of action by governments in the fight against the climate crisis.
“No planet B” or “Plastic in the Kardashians, not in the oceans”, could be read on the signs.
"It's the first time I've come to a demonstration," said Houssaïma Mze, who came with her friends Nadia Elnehdi and Amelle Abyllah, in Terminale like her at Maurice Utrillo high school in Stains (Seine-Saint-Denis), as part of of an assignment on the sociological profile of the demonstrators.
But the three 17-year-old girls thought "it's a good cause to defend" and "could come back" for another show.
“It shows solidarity, the planet belongs to everyone and everyone is concerned”.