Raised fist, scarf around his neck and yellow sticker
"Withdrawal CPE"
on his sweater, a young man with disheveled hair rushes at the head of the procession.
In the city center of Poitiers, this March 18, 2006, Stéphane Séjourné parades with some 7000 demonstrators against the first employment contract (CPE).
The 20-year-old economics student, on the streets every week, even boasts of blocking the university for more than a month.
“
A necessary means of mobilization
”, he explains around him, the clear verb in front of the journalists and his comrades of the Movement of young socialists (MJS).
A little further, in the crowd, Sacha Houlié, 17 and still a high school student, also discovers the protest ceremonial: general assemblies, student "strikes" and anti-government slogans.
Along with the other demonstrators, the two activists are helping to transform Poitiers into a center of mobilization in France.
But they do not know that they will become, fifteen years later, two of the most influential...
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