Incidents broke out on Sunday April 24 in the center of Rennes where several hundred people demonstrated against the result of the second round of the presidential election, defying a prefectural ban, according to AFP journalists.
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Shortly after the announcement of Emmanuel Macron's victory over Marine Le Pen, several hundred anti-capitalist demonstrators - 250 according to the prefecture - gathered in Place Sainte-Anne, in the city center of Rennes, despite a large deployment of forces of the order.
They unfurled a banner proclaiming "
What we won't get from the ballot box, we will get it from the streets
" before leaving in a procession through the streets of the city to cries of: "
Macron is waging war on us and his police too
” or “
Down with the State, the cops and the fachos
”.
They set fire to several garbage cans, forcing firefighters to intervene three times, according to the prefecture which had banned the demonstration.
The security forces fired tear gas near the canal that crosses the city, where hundreds of demonstrators had gathered.
Find a “counter-power”
"
We want to demonstrate to show that Le Pen we don't want him at all but Macron we don't want him either
," Nora, a 21-year-old student, told AFP.
“
We have to organize ourselves to find a counter-power
”.
Two demonstrators were arrested in the middle of the evening, according to the prefecture.
In Nantes, a procession of around 400 to 500 people set off in the early evening through the streets of the city center, behind a banner marked “
Need for revolution
”.
Faced with the demonstrators, the police used tear gas to drive away demonstrators who were throwing firecrackers, according to an AFP journalist.
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Incidents had already broken out in the center of Rennes on April 10, a few hours after the announcement of the results of the first round of the election.
Some 500 people marched through the streets chanting anti-capitalist and anti-fascist slogans.
Fires had been lit, street furniture destroyed and windows of bank branches damaged.
