12th Day of National Mobilization Against Pension Reform: Updates and Disruptions.

14 h 40 – The Parisian demonstration is gone

The demonstration left at 2:30 p.m. in Paris, taking advantage of a lull in the rain to get going.

13 h 50 – In Paris, waste collection disrupted

The strike of the cleanliness agents of the city of Paris resumes. “The collection is severely disrupted today”, indicates the town hall of Paris to the Figaro . The 116 garbage trucks that were able to collect garbage this morning faced “a significant delay due to blockages”, according to the town hall. No dumpster was able to leave or enter the waste incineration site at Porte d’Ivry, in the south-east of Paris. “At this time, all Syctom sites are blocked”, still according to the municipality. “More than half of the dumpsters cannot be emptied and will have to be tomorrow morning”, specifies the town hall of Paris on a daily basis.

13 h 40 – “There will still be meetings in the street”, assures Laurent Berger

The secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, said Thursday that the union fight against the pension reform was “far from over”, projecting itself towards “major popular demonstrations on May 1”. There is still “huge resentment and dull anger” on the part of the demonstrators, he assures.

12 h 47 – “Take the money from the pockets of the billionaires”, proclaims a SUD-Rail delegate

While a few hundred demonstrators entered the LVMH premises, SUD-Rail delegate Fabien Villedieu declared: “You are looking for money to finance pensions, take it from the pockets of billionaires, starting with Bernard Arnault “, director of the LVMH group.

12 h 38 – Protesters enter the premises of LVMH

Demonstrators against the pension reform entered the premises of the headquarters of LVMH avenue Montaigne in Paris. Leaving the Gare de Lyon a little earlier in the morning, more than 300 demonstrators gathered to protest in front of the head office of the luxury brand considered a symbol of capitalism. “The street is ours,” chanted the demonstrators in front of the building, many of whom got into the seat before leaving after about ten minutes, without clashing with the security guards. Red smoke bombs flooded the entrance hall for a few minutes. The demonstrators took up the slogan “there is money in the pockets of employers” or “and we will go as far as withdrawal” and “anti, anti, anti-capitalist”. Several protesters stuck stickers in the lobby of LVMH, but many also called for no degradation.

12 h 29 – Limited disruptions in refineries

Employees of French refineries mobilized Thursday against the pension reform, without however massively disrupting the activity of the sites, we learned from concordant sources. At TotalEnergies, of the 299 operators posted to the group’s 4 refineries for the first quarter on Thursday morning, around 20% were on strike, the company said. In Donges (Loire-Atlantique) and La Mède (Bouches-du-Rhône), the start-up of installations is underway, but shipments have been interrupted, according to TotalEnergies. On the Normandy and Feyzin (Rhône) sites, shipments are in progress.

In Feyzin, the entrance to the refinery was blocked for about two hours Thursday morning by a hundred union and “ultra-left” activists, before the intervention of the police who dispersed them without major incident, according to the prefecture. Regarding consumer supply, at 8:30 a.m., 7.5% of service stations were short of at least one fuel (petrol and/or diesel), according to an analysis by AFP of site data. government fuel prices.

12 h 12 – Olivier Véran believes that the Constitutional Council has “the right to serenity”

In reaction to the blocking of the entrance to the Constitutional Council on Thursday morning, Olivier Véran declared at the end of the Council of Ministers: “We obviously do not want there to be (…) any pressure whatsoever moreover which can weigh on such or such institution of the Republic. And therefore the Constitutional Council is entitled to the serenity of the debates and is entitled that the decision which will be rendered, whatever it is, is respected by all, ”he insisted.

11 h 27 – 5% of strikers in National Education

Some 5% of National Education staff were on strike Thursday in the academies which are not on vacation, as part of the 12th day of mobilization against the pension reform, said the Ministry of Education. For teachers alone, the ministry has identified 4.13% of strikers in the first degree (nursery and elementary schools) and 5.19% in secondary (middle and high schools).

11 h 20 – The first processions set off

In Reims, Le Havre, Toulouse, Nantes… In several cities in France, the first processions for this 12th day of mobilization set off.
In Toulouse, the young people at the head of the procession are calling for a “general strike”, in a “festive” atmosphere, as Actu Toulouse points out. “The street is ours,” they chant. In Nantes, the prefecture has issued decrees to prevent any violence, in particular by prohibiting fireworks.

10 h 48 – Opponents call for continued mobilization

Several opponents of the pension reform called on Thursday morning not to weaken the mobilization, even after the decisions taken by the Constitutional Council. “If the law is validated, as well as the referendum of shared initiative, we will be able to engage in a campaign, to continue the mobilization in adapted forms”, explained Wednesday Benoît Teste, the secretary general of the FSU. “We will have to continue the movement, of course,” said Green MP Sandrine Rousseau on RTL on Thursday. “The mobilization must continue because this text of law must not see the light of day,” added Manuel Bompard, LFI deputy, on France 2. Among the hypotheses considered by the unions, unit parades on May 1, even a vast demonstration in Paris, with opponents everywhere in France.