About 5,500 people participated Tuesday afternoon in the demonstration of caregivers in Nantes, where clashes erupted in front of the prefecture, AFP learned from concordant sources.
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“ The demonstration from the CHU to the prefecture went quite well overall, with 5,500 people present. But around twenty hooded individuals threw mortars into the prefecture, "said Johann Mougenot, chief of staff of the Loire-Atlantique prefecture.
Tear gas and water lance
" There are members of the procession who asked them to stop launching projectiles at the police ," he added. The police responded by using tear gas and a water lance. An AFP photographer, present on the spot, estimated at a hundred the number of black blocks present.
The Loire-Atlantique police confirmed the incidents on Twitter. “ Our police officers present in the gardens of the Loire Atlantique prefecture were targeted by hostile individuals present in the procession. No injuries. The procession currently at the crossroads of trams, "said the DDSP on the social network.
After three months of health crisis, doctors, nurses' aides and nurses beat the pavement by thousands Tuesday everywhere in France to remind the government to its promises on the hospital, in full " Ségur de la santé ". Johann Mougenot clarified that he had received a union delegation (CGT, FO and CFDT).
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