Opponents of the pension reform continue to express their anger after the activation of 49.3 and before the debate on Monday on the motions of no confidence from the oppositions.
Gatherings continue to take place in the regions and in Paris, sometimes without an authorization having been filed with the prefecture;
or by continuing illegally after the dispersal order given by the organizers.
In the capital, the Place de la Concorde is now forbidden to demonstrators by decision of the prefect, after two nights of illegal gatherings during which demonstrators degraded the facilities of the square.
On Saturday, this emblematic place in Paris was placed under the very high surveillance of hundreds of police officers, and water cannons were prepositioned there.
The police carried out numerous searches of passers-by and asked people to circulate, according to journalists.
At 7 p.m., the square was emptied of hundreds of people present an hour earlier who were walking around without signs or banners, making it impossible to tell whether they were passers-by or potential demonstrators.
Also in Paris, the CGT Île-de-France organized a rally in Place d'Italie (south of Paris), which turned into a procession.
Clashes with the police broke out at the end of the evening, with throwing of projectiles, trash fires and barricades.
According to a police source, 81 people were arrested in and around Place d'Italie, where calm returned around 10:30 p.m.
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Several thousand people marched in the region
A few hundred demonstrators marched in Marseille, as well as in Lille, Amiens, Caen, Saint-Etienne, Roanne, Besançon, Dijon, Grenoble, Gap, Annecy, Lodève...
Some processions counted several thousand people, as in Nantes (6,000 according to the police, 15,000 according to the unions) or Brest (between 5,000 and 8,000), with some tension.
In Nantes, according to Franceinfo, "
the police, targets of bottle throwing, responded by firing tear gas while garbage cans were set on fire on the tram tracks
".
And in Brest, according to
Le Telegramme
, the demonstrators attacked the police and set fire to garbage cans, some of which were thrown on the tracks of the metro, before trying to break into a shopping center .
They were repelled by tear gas.
In Bordeaux, an improvised procession brought together 1,900 people according to the prefecture.
In Lyon, according to the journalist from
Figaro
present on the spot Antoine Sillières, a large police force dispersed the gathering of 400 to 500 people on the place Lyautey in the 6th arrondissement on Saturday evening around 8 p.m.
Several small groups were formed, followed and dissuaded from intervening by the police, indicate the services of the State.
About fifty individuals gathered in the Guillotière district before a new dispersal maneuver.
In total, the prefecture announces 17 arrests during the evening.
