The mobilization is clearly down in the 12th act of the mobilization against the pension reform. For the third consecutive week, the number of demonstrators decreased in the processions everywhere in France. In the west, bastion of protest, they were thus 10,000 in Nantes according to the police, 25,000 according to the organizers, in both cases the lowest since March 11 – date of the weakest mobilization at the national level at this time. day. Ditto in Rennes, where 6,500 to 15,000 people marched, in Rouen (4,500 to 9,000) and in Le Havre (between 3,800 and 20,000), where the gauges have rarely been so low. However, there were violent clashes between the police and groups of demonstrators in Nantes and Rennes, while tear gas was used by the police in Paris near the Hôtel de Ville. Acts of vandalism were perpetrated in several cities, cars burned in Rennes, windows broken in Paris. The police had already made 25 arrests in Paris shortly before 6 p.m.
These figures are disputed by the CGT. According to the union, some 400,000 people are demonstrating in Paris. It’s as much as last week in the capital, according to the union. The authorities had identified 42,000 people.
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The decline is also evident in the center, in Orléans (2,700 to 6,000) or Clermont-Ferrand (6,000 to 10,000) and in the south, from Bayonne (3,000 to 7,000) to Nice (2,700 to 15,000) via Montpellier (5,000 to 10,000). As often in the event of a reflux, the differences are widening between the estimates, in particular in Toulouse with a difference of one to eight (from 9,000 to 70,000) and even a record of one to twenty in Marseille (between 6,500… and 130,000 ).
The number of civil servants on strike against the pension reform fell Thursday for the 12th day of mobilization, with in particular a rate of strikers of 3.8% in the state civil service at midday, against 6.5% on April 6, according to the Ministry of Public Service. The State civil service brings together some 2.5 million agents.
In the territorial public service (2 million), 2% of the agents were on strike, against 3.9% at midday during the last day of strike at the call of the inter-union. In the hospital public service (1.2 million), the rate is 4.2% against 5.9% last Thursday. The mobilization of civil servants had already experienced a slight drop on April 6 compared to March 28.
