“Thousands March in Dijon to Protest Retirement Plan: A Reportage”

In the Burgundian city, 12,000 people according to the inter-union, 4,500 according to the police, marched this Thursday, April 6. Demonstrators fewer than last week, but determined.

In Dijon, the atmosphere is in the demo behind the truck spitting out big techno. “It’s great sound, there was not that last week”, slips Anis, 19 years old, in English license. Between the bass and the firecrackers that erupt at regular intervals, the young woman explains that she is there for her father, who is supposed to retire soon. “It’s complicated, we’re here because we’re angry”she lets go, galvanized by the atmosphere. “We have to stop taking ourselves for idiotslaunches his friend Mathyas, who moves to the rhythm of the sound, goggles on his nose. The government does not listen to anyone, they are on their own! We are going to show them that we are welded!”

Like Anis and Mathyas, many students demonstrated among the 12,000 people in the street according to the intersyndicale, 4,500 according to the police. It’s less than last week. His red CGT vest on his back, Alain, 75, has been present in processions since January. “The government hopes that we will run out of steam, with fewer days of wages, inflation, etc. But we have no intention of moving until he withdraws this project which wants to kill friends and young people before retirement.launches this former Seita worker.

“We are starting to be known here, Darmanin talked about us”

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