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The numbers of arrests are changing in Paris. According to a police source, now 46 people have been arrested on Tuesday evening.
The police finally dispersed the demonstrators on Place de la République, but some of them are now Place de la Bastille, where the situation is once again tense with the police. Fires were lit and barricades erected in the surrounding streets.
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Scuffles pitted the police on Tuesday evening against some 250 young people, who notably burned a few trash cans and briefly disrupted the Series Mania festival, following a demonstration against the pension reform.
According to AFP, the rally originally organized by unions in the early evening on Place de la République turned into a tense face-to-face between a few hundred demonstrators and the police who exchanged projectile throws. and tear gas canisters. According to a police source, “the organizers left the scene but a group of individuals threw projectiles in the direction of the firefighters then tried to set off in a wild procession before being prevented by the police” . They carried out several charges by drowning under a cloud of tear gas the Place de la République squared at its ends by police and gendarmerie units in charge of maintaining order. The République metro station was closed around 9:30 p.m., due to the presence of “tear gas in the station”, according to RATP agents. The police made 11 arrests, according to a police source.
Faced with the aggravation of gasoline supply tensions in the Bouches-du-Rhône, eleven service stations in the department will be requisitioned from Wednesday to Friday morning, to exclusively ensure the supply of certain “priority” vehicles, announced Tuesday the police Department. “These service stations (…) are requisitioned for a period of 48 hours from Wednesday at 6 a.m., for the purpose of supplying fuel to vehicles of priority professions”, can we read in a decree published Tuesday evening .
In front of a few hundred people in Ax-les-Thermes, Jean-Luc Mélenchon pointed out the responsibility of Emmanuel Macron in the deepening of the crisis, while the spontaneous gatherings led to tensions and arrests by the police. “This man set fire to and closed all the exits: electing opposition deputies would be useless since there is 49.3, going on strike, he doesn’t care, there are requisitions, going to a demonstration in what’s the point, we’ll put you in the cabin at night”. “A page in the history of France is being written and we are the authors, we hardheads, the resistants,” Mélenchon said.
In Nantes, 10,000 people demonstrated according to the unions, 4,100 according to the police. The first tear gas was fired shortly after the start of the demonstration by the police, who came under heavy mortar fire, AFP journalists noted. On the sidelines of the procession, damage was committed, including ransacked businesses and tags like “49.3 it will not pass” or “Macron only understands the riot”. Three hours after the start of the demonstration, participants remained determined to continue their movement despite attempts by the security forces to disperse them. In Rennes, 4,000 people, some of whom carried torches according to the organizers, 1,200 according to the prefecture, strolled through the city center peacefully. Back at their starting point around 8:30 p.m., the demonstrators released paper lanterns in the sky, chanting slogans hostile to Emmanuel Macron and the police, before dispersing.
The demonstration continues on the Place de la République where clashes take place. Tear gas was fired and some protesters left the scene.
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Emmanuel Macron warned Tuesday evening that “the crowd” demonstrating against pension reform had “no legitimacy in the face of the people who express themselves sovereignly through their elected officials”, according to a participant in a meeting with parliamentarians from his camp at the Elysée. Promising to defend “the democratic and republican order”, the Head of State hammered home, after the adoption by Parliament of his text via article 49.3 of the Constitution: “the riot does not prevail over representatives of the people”.
Emmanuel Macron estimated Tuesday evening before the parliamentarians of his camp that it was necessary to “appease” and “listen to the anger” of the French after the disputed adoption of his pension reform by Parliament, reported participants in this meeting at the ‘Elysium. “Using the Constitution to pass a reform is always a good thing if we want to be respectful of our institutions”, said the president to justify the use of 49.3 decried by opponents of his text, ensuring that there was no “no alternative majority”.
Gatherings are underway in Chambéry, Nantes, Le Mans and Montpellier.
Several hundred people chant “Macron, resign!” » in the city center of
An authorized gathering has been underway at Place de la République since 6 p.m., where thousands of people are. Demonstrators lit a fire. The situation became tense a little after 8 p.m. and the police fired tear gas canisters.
A young LFI activist denounced, on Tuesday, his “arbitrary” arrest during a demonstration against the pension reform, Monday evening in Dijon, which will earn him a trial at the end of October. “We needed culprits. I was told that I was going to pay for the damage,” Alinoë Gentaz told AFP. “I did not break,” he assured. “It is an eminently political, arbitrary arrest,” added the LFI activist. Arrested on Monday around 8:40 p.m., he was prosecuted for “participation without a weapon in a crowd after being summoned to disperse by a person deliberately hiding his face so as not to be identified”, the public prosecutor told AFP. Olivier Caracotch. He is due to stand trial on October 31. The activist claims not to have sought to hide his face but simply to have protected himself with a mask, and not to have “heard” the warnings to disperse. He was welcomed by around forty supporters, in particular from LFI and Solidaires, when he left the Dijon police station.
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