About 400 people demonstrated this Saturday, June 12 in Poitiers against far-right ideas. They were 350 in Niort the morning. These two “freedom marches against far-right ideas” were launched to the call of associations like Attac 86, The friends of the women of the liberation, the LDH; unions (CGT 86, FSU86, Solidaires 86) and left-wing political parties (EELV 86, Ensembles, Générations.S or even La France insoumise, the NPA and the PCF). These local associations relayed from aileurs a national movement.
The participants were there tor denounce the place of far-right speeches in society and security laws of the government. It is a very important day for Catherine Giraud, the general secretary of the CGT in Vienne. “It seemed important to us in view of the prevailing climate in France which is beginning to _to be really deleterious_“, she explains. And to continue: “Already, when we turn on our television set, every day, we have hateful comments on certain channels. But also on a daily basis or we feel that this hatred, this racism, it really rises in the country. And even sexism. Strongly. “ As a representative of the forces of the left, in a broad sense, for her, it was necessary toutter in the street. A way of saying stop before “Maybe in a year, the worst will happen to us in power.”
No, no, to far-right ideas. ”One of the slogans of the demonstrators.
In the procession, the demonstrators have a real worry on the broadcasts of far-right speeches in society. “As we are in a situation which is very anxiety-provoking, one of the responses which may attract part of the population is security responses and therefore we must tell them that no, no, no, no, no, it is not. is not that the solution “, assures Marie-Jo, one of the participants in the yellow Phrygian cap with fish on her head. If she is there, it is because she is not giving up: “I’m full of hope, but only, there are still things that are emerging that can be a bit scary so we have to fight so that it does not happen.” Florence Briole is 70 years old and has been a feminist activist for years. She too will fight, but the situation reminds her of history. “I have the impression that we are at _a pre-fascist period_, as in the years 35-37 “, she believes. The protesters do not intend to stop there and go continue the fight. For them, it also goes through the ballot box: going to vote in the next elections.
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