The pension reform project is presented to the Council of Ministers this Friday, January 24. In Nantes, the demonstrators left the mirror around 11:30 am According to our count, they would be nearly 7000 marching through the streets of the city center.
Nearly 7,000 protesters participate In Nantes, this Friday, January 24, at another day of mobilization against pension reform.
In freezing cold, the demonstrators first gathered at the reflecting pool in front of the Dukes’ castle, around 10:30 am An hour later, the procession set off towards the LU tower. From the start of the demonstration, unions and high school students disputed the head of the procession.
The mobilization had started on Thursday January 23 with a torchlight retreat in the streets of Nantes. A thousand people participated in this march which was dispersed by tear gas jets, in the city center of Nantes.
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1:17 p.m.
Our journalist Marylise Couraud sends us some videos of the atmosphere in the ranks of the demo.
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12:57
In Saint-Nazaire, 2,500 people demonstrate in the streets of the city. High school students opened the demonstration by burning pallets.
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12:52
CRS were sprayed with blue paint near the Nantes prefecture.
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12:37
Our journalist Philippe Gambert, who has counted the number of demonstrators since the departure of the procession, estimates that the mobilization is significantly greater than last week. There would be at least 6,700 demonstrators.
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12:09
The high school students try, from time to time to take the lead of the procession in Nantes.
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Find the route of the event this Friday, January 24.
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12:02
Protesters march in freezing cold. Credit: Jérôme Fouquet
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11:59
Our journalist on site tells us that the procession arrives on rue Fouré.
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11:57
This morning, from 6 a.m., blockages were organized in high schools in Rezé and Nantes.
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11:56
Watchword ? “We do not let anything.” The unions have already announced that a new mobilization is scheduled for January 29.
Around 11:30 a.m., the demonstration started, in freezing cold. Unions and high school students compete for the head of the procession.
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11:54
Among the protesters, Chantal Girardin, 76 years old. This activist in the Communist Revolutionary Party is of all movements and was, at dawn, on a picket line in Ancenis in the Usi, and Toyota. “I would be ashamed to leave a world like this to the young. It’s not just for pensions, it’s also against all of Macron’s policy. “
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11:53
Hello welcome to this live dedicated to a new demonstration against the pension reform project in Nantes.
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Also follow live strikes and demonstrations on January 24 across France
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