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May 1 demonstrations: in Nantes, elected officials condemn the violence committed

2023-05-02T15:27:13.931Z


The mayor of the city, Johanna Rolland, and Michel Ménard, the president of the Departmental Council, published press releases in which they denounce acts which harm the social movement.


Le Figaro Nantes

Two burned vehicles, smashed shop windows or bank branches, multiple billboards destroyed... in Nantes, the May Day demonstration, which brought together 80,000 people according to the unions and 17,500 according to the prefecture, sometimes gave rise to protests. acts of violence.

If the vast majority of the procession marched peacefully alongside the inter-union which struggled to bring it to an end, a minority of thugs stirred several times at the head of it.

The first incidents broke out less than an hour after the departure of the procession which had set off from the Nefs on the island of Nantes.

Violent clashes took place between a hundred individuals and the police in rue Kervégan.

Located nearby, the Bovélo shop was damaged.

Windows were smashed.

“There were people who went inside

,” confirmed to

Figaro

, a store manager.

Read alsoPolice burned during the May Day demonstration in Paris: investigation opened for attempted homicide

Burned parking lot

About an hour later, the violence reached its climax near the buildings of the prefecture and the Loire-Atlantique Departmental Council.

At first, some tried to start a fire, using garbage containers, in front of an entrance to the prefecture.

An attempt that yielded nothing.

A few minutes later, a fire was lit in the parking lot of the Hôtel du Département.

This time, the flames ravaged the entrance to the site.

Le Figaro

found that some thugs temporarily prevented access to the firefighters, which led to a brief altercation with a group of people.

This event, the PS president of the Departmental Council,

"strongly condemns"

it .

In a press release, Michel Ménard evokes

“unacceptable acts

of great violence”

.

According to him, it is

“inadmissible that a minority of people discredit”

the mobilization of May Day.

Saying to make the distinction between

"peaceful demonstrators"

and

"those who seek only confrontation and violence"

, the elected official - present for two hours on the spot at the start of the procession - wishes to recall his opposition to an

"unjust and brutal reform »

.

On this point, he underlines to understand

“the anger of the demonstrators

vis-à-vis a deaf president”

.

"Minority of thugs"

About an hour and a half after the broadcast of this message, it was the mayor of Nantes, Johanna Rolland, who issued a press release.

In it, she claims to condemn

“with the greatest firmness the excesses that occurred and the violence that took place on the sidelines of the May Day demonstration”

.

For her, these acts are the work

of "a minority of thugs who have committed acts of vandalism that are both unacceptable and completely contrary to the spirit and values"

of a day

of "gathering for workers' rights"

.

Also present in the Nantes procession, the city councilor writes to deplore

“acts which are detrimental to the fight waged peacefully for more than three months by hundreds of thousands of French women and men […] against this pension reform law unjust and brutal, against the deafness of the government”

.

The number two bis of the national PS completes its text by addressing its

"solidarity"

and its

"support"

to the president of the Departmental Council as well as to

"all the victims of this violence and degradation"

.

Source: lefigaro

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