There were still many of them mobilizing in the streets of Nantes to denounce the pension reform.
According to the unions, the demonstration which started this Tuesday at 10:30 am from the Water Mirror, in front of the castle of the Dukes of Brittany, brought together 65,000 people.
The police, for their part, counted 28,000 participants.
In both cases, it is more than during the first mobilization of January 19 (25,000 according to the police and 50,000 according to the unions).
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“It's not possible, they have to take into account the hardship of the work. (…) We need this recognition of the arduousness
, “insisted Virginie, a 47-year-old firefighter, who wished to remain anonymous.
“Physically, we are broken very quickly.
We have workloads, like other professions, very important
, ”continued this woman, questioning the taking into account of her three pregnancies in the calculation of her pension rights.
Émilie, 38, works in the performing arts sector.
She came with her 3.5-year-old son Malo:
“I'm very freaked out about the next generation, I'm coming more for him than for me.
»
Malo, 3 and a half years old.
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Four “isolated” arrests
Like her, tens of thousands of people walked the streets of Nantes chanting:
"Macron, your law, it will not pass!"
, and by displaying signs where one could read: “Retirement of president for our daronnes”, “Pôle emploi, you have beautiful old people you know”, or even “Leaving later to die earlier”.
The slogans were varied in the procession.
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The demonstration, framed by a large police force, took place calmly, with the exception of clashes between police and demonstrators when the procession arrived near the Loire-Atlantique prefecture.
Some demonstrators threw projectiles at the police and paint at the front of a temp agency.
The police said they had made
“four isolated arrests”
.
Nearly 20,000 people in Saint-Nazaire
In the rest of Loire-Atlantique, the demonstrators marched in Saint-Nazaire.
They were between 14,000 (according to the police) and 18,000 (according to the CGT).
In the town of Ancenis, they were between 3200 (according to the prefecture) and 6500 (according to the CGT).
In Châteaubriant, the unions counted 3000 people, against 1700 according to the prefecture.
"It's a great mobilization which shows that the declarations of Elisabeth Borne did not discourage the demonstrators"
, reacted Éric Malo, deputy general secretary of the CFDT of Pays de la Loire, with Le
Figaro
.
According to him, other mobilizations should soon take place.
The inter-union was to meet this evening at the national level to take stock.