“We won’t let them go!”: In the wake of similar episodes in recent days, the trips of several ministers were agitated on Monday by concerts of saucepans as a protest against the pension reform.
In Lyon, the Minister of Education Pap Ndiaye even had to postpone a visit to the National Higher Institute of Teaching and Education (Inspe) where a hundred demonstrators were waiting for him at the start of the afternoon. tried to enter the building, noted AFP journalists.
In particular mobilized by a call on social networks, the demonstrators equipped with pots, pans, buckets, whistles but also fog horns and smoke bombs forced one of the entrances to Inspe by shouting “we too will pass in force”, an allusion to the 49.3 actuated to adopt the unpopular reform of the pensions.
“We will not let them go until the reform is withdrawn. We will not let the members of the government come to the cities until the text is withdrawn”, said among the demonstrators Frédéric Volle, school teacher and FO delegate. Education of 47 years.
The police repelled them, in particular by using tear gas to respond to a few projectile jets.
The minister did not show up at the scheduled time, but during a tense microphone organized later at the rectorate, Mr. Ndiaye denied any backsliding, claiming to have reversed the stages of his trip to Lyon.
“All of this is not very important, the main thing is to meet the staff of the rectorate and the student teachers” of Inspe, “it is a small setback which ultimately does not change anything”, he minimized , before finally going to Inspe at the end of the afternoon.
Traveling at the same time to the Poitiers University Hospital, the Minister of Health François Braun arrived there to the sound of pots and the boos of a few dozen demonstrators, who had responded to a call from the CGT and were kept at a safe distance. by the CRS.
In the Sarthe, it was the Keeper of the Seals Eric Dupond-Moretti who was welcomed by a noisy concert during a trip to a prison in Coulaines.
About 150 demonstrators, according to an AFP photographer, began banging on a multitude of kitchen utensils an hour and a half before the arrival of the minister, who came to inaugurate a support structure for detainees at the end of their sentence.
The Minister of Justice went to greet the demonstrators at the end of his visit, according to a union official.
For her part, the Secretary of State for Children Charlotte Caubel canceled a visit scheduled for Monday to a hospital in Saint-Maurice (Val-de-Marne).
Taunted by the president of the LFI group in the Assembly and deputy for the department Mathilde Panot, who posed with a saucepan while evoking a “confined government”, Ms. Caubel then had her entourage explain that it was a simple 24-hour postponement due to a “scheduling conflict”.
Monday evening, many concerts of saucepans in front of the town halls were planned around 8:00 p.m. at the call of Attac, to mark the first anniversary of the re-election, for a second five-year term, of Emmanuel Macron.
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24/04/2023 18:40:47 — Lyon (AFP) © 2023 AFP
