Prohibited demonstrations, disrupted transport and wide security perimeter: the Rhône prefecture announced this Friday, May 5 the measures which will surround the trip of Emmanuel Macron Monday, May 8 to Lyon for a ceremony in tribute to the French Resistance.
Calls to demonstrate were launched Friday in Lyon in anticipation of this visit by the Head of State, who is to preside over a ceremony there in homage to the French Resistance and to Jean Moulin, incarnation of the hero-resistant, at the approach of the 80th anniversary of his arrest by the Gestapo, in Caluire-et-Cuire, near Lyon.
The president is scheduled to go at 3 p.m. to the Montluc prison, where Jews and resistance fighters were detained and tortured during the Second World War, including Jean Moulin, the first president of the National Council of the Resistance (CNR). ). The Keeper of the Seals Éric Dupond-Moretti, the Minister of National Education Pape Ndiaye and the Secretary of State to the Minister of the Armed Forces, in charge of Veterans and Memory, Patricia Miralles, will also be present.
“Let’s meet many and many to welcome the monarch and his court,” tweeted Lyon Insurrection, which presents itself as an “alternative and independent media” on social networks, calling for a demonstration in front of Montluc on Monday. This account, close to the radical left, is very active in calling for wild demonstrations in the capital of Gaul against the pension reform.
A CGT leaflet did the same to denounce, according to the union, a “usurpation” of the legacy of the Resistance by the President of the Republic when he “has just dealt a blow to the solidarity pension system set up in the post-war period”. The account “Lyon in struggle” called for “a general casserole” the same day in front of the former military prison, an hour before the arrival of the head of state.
A security perimeter will be set up in the Montluc district by the Rhône prefecture, which indicated in a press release on Friday evening that it would involve “a certain number of traffic restrictions, in particular for motorists, pedestrians and transport users. in common “.
Thus, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., “processions, parades and protest rallies” will be “prohibited” there. “Several public transport lines will also be impacted” and the parking of vehicles prohibited in certain streets from the day before.
