“Macron resignation”, ” We are here ! »and also and above all the « clang » and the « bang » produced by metal struck by spoons or other kitchen utensils: Emmanuel Macron’s televised speech on Monday April 17 at 8 p.m. was greeted in many cities in France by concerts of saucepans by demonstrators determined to show that they did not want to listen to the Head of State, believing that they had not been heard on the pension reform.
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Several rallies were held in particular in Paris, where the demonstrators began to make noise a few moments before the speech of the president. The protesters displayed many flags of the LFI, NPA, PCF, EELV parties, or even the Attac organization or the CGT.
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Three wild demonstrations later took place in the streets of the capital, bringing together some 2,000 demonstrators in total, said the prefecture, which had identified 16 garbage fires at the end of the evening, all of them extinguished.
The anti-globalization NGO Attac, which launched this call for « casserolades » in front of town halls, identified “more than 300 gatherings” In France.
Incidents in Lyon
Among these, some gave rise to incidents, for example in Lyon, where shortly after 9 p.m., several hundred demonstrators left to walk the streets of the Croix-Rousse district at the end of the « casserolade » organized in front of the Town Hall, place des Terreaux.
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“During a wild demonstration”, a group of individuals forced a door of the town hall of the 1st arrondissement before entering the building and tagging the walls of the entrance, relates the press release from the prefecture. Others set fire to the front of the borough’s municipal police station and at the same time, a fire broke out in the basement of an adjoining building.
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On the course of this wild demonstration, projectiles were thrown and fireworks fired at the police who then responded with tear gas. Two police officers were injured during the evening.
The regional prefect reacted by strongly condemning “these attacks on public property” and assured of its support of the forces of order.
