Some 4,700 people mobilized on Saturday January 7 in France at the call for
"yellow vests",
including 2,000 in Paris, to denounce the policy of Emmanuel Macron, the future pension reform, inflation or even to ask for an overhaul of the institutions, according to figures from the Ministry of the Interior.
In Paris, the main procession set off around 2 p.m. from the seventh arrondissement of the capital to reach the district of Bercy, in the east of Paris, noted an AFP journalist.
The parade, which grew over the afternoon, was framed by a large police force and a number of media who came to gauge the hypothetical resumption of the movement three days before a controversial pension reform and against a backdrop of 'inflation.
Read the file "Yellow Vests": the government facing the mobilization
The demonstration, which had been relayed on social networks, crossed the south of Paris to the rhythm of anti-Macron songs but without the violence or clashes between demonstrators and the police which punctuated the "
yellow vests
" movement initially launched in November 2018 against the increase in fuel taxes and which has since largely withered.
"
It will grow with the pension reform, we start again
," testified Hasna Kenider, administrative assistant.
“
We no longer have public services.
The hospital I'm afraid to go.
I don't see myself working until I'm 64
,” she continued.
Lætitia, thirty years old who did not wish to give her name, deplored “
the third-worldization of France
” while deploring “
paying a lot of taxes
” without seeing “
in return what we are paying for
”.
Other gatherings were organized in France.
The Ministry of the Interior counted 2,700 participants for 58 listed actions.