Paris: Hundreds of thousands of people protested in France through President Emmanuel Macron’s planned arrest policies and broke most of the country’s public life.
Protesters who made a call from the unions organized a daily action that saw that public transportation had stopped, schools were closed and withdrawn to the streets for demonstrations marked with irregular conflicts with the police.
A union said that more than one million people across the country participated in demonstrations – higher than 900,000, in June 2023, from 62 to 64 to 64 against the abolition of retirement age in June 2023.
French authorities, which are often significantly lower than unions, said that more than 500,000 people in the country show 55,000 in Paris.
Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said that 309 people were detained during the protests and 7,300 “radicalized” protesters were allegedly participating in demos.
Authorized, 26 officers were injured, he added.
Since 2017, Macron’s seventh government president Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu took a break from the past to neutralize a deepening political crisis after he took office last week.
However, the appointment of former 39 -year -old defense minister and near Macron Ally could not calm the anger of trade unions and many French people.
“I repeat my commitment to establish dialogue with all social partners,” Thursday said in a statement on Thursday.
However, many protesters directly targeted Macron, who remained in power for only 18 months and endured the worst levels of popularity so far.
A few banners called him to resign, and the demonstrators in the South city threw a Macron Effigy into the air.
Sophie Larchet, a 60 -year -old officer, said that she had come to protest in Paris because of Macron.
“We lived enough, torture France,” he said to AFP.
‘Thousands of strikes’
Others complained of an increasing gap between ordinary people and elite, and said that a number of arguments proposed by the government would make the poorest the poorest.
64 -year -old Bruno Cavalier, Lyon, the third largest city of France, “the richest is rich and the poor become poor.” He said.
Protesters are detained on the draft budget of Lecornu’s predecessor Francois Bayrou, who proposes a series of measures that he said he would save 44 billion euros ($ 52 billion) to reduce France’s high debt.
Lecornu tried to calm the anger by promising to remove life -long privileges for former prime ministers and stopped a widely ignored plan to scrape two official holidays.
More than 80,000 police officers were supported by drones, armored vehicles and water ball.
While the unions called on strike, one of the six teachers in primary and secondary schools went out, and nine of 10 pharmacies were closed.
Vehicles faced a serious deterioration in the Paris Metro, where only three -driverless automatic line works normally.
The unions said they were satisfied with the scale of the protests.
Sophie Binet, the leader of the CGT Union, said, “We have recorded 260 shows in France.” He said. “There are thousands and thousands of strikes in all workplaces.”
‘Bored’
The police in Paris and Marseille used tear gas to distribute early, unauthorized demonstrations. In Marseille, an AFPTV correspondent, a police officer shot a police film kicking a protester on the ground, the police said they were faced with “hostile” demonstrators.
At the foot of the northern city of Lille, the protesters took action to block bus warehouses early in the morning.
“We’re tired of being taxed like crazy,” 58 -year -old garbage truck driver Samuel Gaillard said.
Even the school children participated, the students prevented access to Maurice Ravel Secondary School in Eastern Paris, “Your school prevents your school against squeezing.”
