Le Figaro Lyon
If the new route saved the demonstrators from the bottleneck of the Hôtel-Dieu hopper, the demonstration was not a long calm river for all that at the head of the procession.
In contrast to the calm of the 12,000 to 32,000 people marching in the back, more than 400 hostile individuals were present in this famous pre-cortege of the demonstration against the pension reform, Thursday in Lyon.
Demonstration which arrived for the first time in the beautiful districts of the 6th arrondissement.
Many traders, worried about the images of damage committed by this minority in the previous weeks on the Cours Gambetta, had barricaded their storefronts.
But windows of banks and insurance companies were still degraded.
A Nespresso store was broken into and looted.
Broken apartment window
The police used numerous tear gas to disperse these determined thugs.
To the point that some grenades landed on balconies.
One of them even broke a window, entering a rapidly smoky apartment.
Images that did not fail to recall the drama of the death of Zineb Redouane, named after this octogenarian who died in Marseille in December 2018 after being injured at home by a grenade fired by the police, during act 3 "yellow vests".
Regarding the Lyon demonstration on Thursday, the prefecture evokes collateral damage due to rebounds on the plane trees or the facades of buildings.
It was either tear gas or a more dangerous melee intervention
Rhone prefecture
“Below, stores were looted and broken with personnel inside by a large black block close to the head of the procession and the police
, traces the entourage of the prefect.
It was either tear gas or a more dangerous hand-to-hand combat
.
The prefect of the Rhône, Fabienne Buccio, for her part thanked the police and the gendarmerie
"for their action carried out with determination to protect the businesses even though they were the subject of very many projectiles"
.
13 arrests were made at the front of the procession.
