1 more than 300,000 people on the streets according to the CGT, 157,000 according to the police
More than 300,000 people demonstrated in France this Thursday, May 1, including 100,000 in Paris, according to a CGT assessment.
“This day of demonstration is a great success, we have identified 270 demonstrations throughout France and at this stage we have 250,000 demonstrators, so the total assessment will be higher,” said in the afternoon, on LCI, the number one of the union, Sophie Binet. Shortly after, the power station revised its figure upwards by reporting “more than 300,000 demonstrators, including 100,000 in Paris”. Last year, the union counted 210,000 demonstrators in France (including 50,000 in Paris) and the authorities 121,000.
In the early evening, the police announced 157,000 demonstrators in France, including 32,000 in Paris.
In Brittany, where 24 rallies were announced, more than 12,500 people went down to the street. It was more than last year, where nearly 10,000 people beat the pavement in the four departments of the region.
2 The Socialist Party denounces physical assaults
The Socialist Party denounced physical assault against some of its activists and elected officials in the Parisian procession. “In Paris, socialists were physically attacked by black blocks ignoring any collective conscience in these times of historical rocking. Through their methods, they discredit the fights they claim to be carrying, “denounced the first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, on X.” Complaints are in progress. We will not let anything go. We will never accept the violence of fanatics that do not serve any cause and destroy collective fights, “he also posted.
“Serious and unacceptable violence. These disruptors are the enemies of the workers and the left. All my support for the injured comrades, “wrote Boris Vallaud, announcing seizing the prosecution. “They don’t scare us, they will not silence the socialists,” he added.
According to an AFP journalist, demonstrators dressed in black, some wearing anti -fas flags, strongly shaken up elected officials and PS activists who had a stand on the journey of the demonstration. “Everyone hates the PS,” chanted these demonstrators hostile to the socialist presence.
Socialist deputy Jérôme Guedj, who had to leave a rally on Sunday against Islamophobia after having suffered invective in the anti -Semitic hints, had to be dismissed from the procession, according to television images.
-Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau assured his “support” for “assaulted” activists on X.
3 fifteen arrests in Nantes
Helts occurred this Thursday, in the center of Nantes, during the demonstration which brought together 5,000 people, said the prefecture, adding that there had been fifteen arrests.
Shortly after 12:30 p.m., near the prefecture, the police loaded demonstrators and used water cannons, according to an AFP photographer.
The Loire-Atlantique prefecture indicated on X that “demonstrators have degraded the prefecture and thrown projectiles as well as mortars against the police”. “The police retaliated using water cannons and tear gas,” she added.
Calm then returned to the dispersion of the demonstrators, according to an AFP photographer.
4 in Paris, bottle jets and baton strokes
In Paris, some degradations and charges of the police were noted on the course of the demonstration, and at 3:30 p.m., 1 people had been arrested, according to the prefecture. Around 5 p.m., police and demonstrators exchanged bottle jets and battle strokes. In Lyon, where 6,500 people demonstrated, according to the prefecture, three people were arrested.
In total, according to the balance sheet of the police revealed in the early evening, 72 people were arrested in France, including 52 in Paris, with 28 people placed in police custody, including 19 in the capital.
Note that more than 400 people participating in the celebrations of the May 1st were arrested in Istanbul, the Turkish authorities announced which deployed more than 50,000 police officers and paralyzed part of the city to prevent any gathering in the emblematic Place Taksim.
