Anger, riots and garbage burning during the night in Paris against the pension reform sanctioned by Macron

thousands of French They have taken over the streets of Paris and the main provincial capitals on Monday evening, after the government won the motion of censure for pension reform in the National Assembly by just 9 votes. At least 70 are detained in the French capital, after serious clashes between police and demonstrators in unauthorized marches.

Garbage cans are burning between the Opera building and rue de Rivoli, in the most touristic area of ​​Paris. Protesters are playing “cat and mouse” with the security forces, who are repressed with water trucks and tear gas. Firefighters take action to put out the fires in the city.

In the midst of enormous tension, with the police gassing and moving motorcycles with two policemen each in Paris, the crowd advances from Place Vauban, in the 7th arrondissement, towards the Louvre museum and the Opera Garnier. scream.

The bonfires of rubbish abandoned by garbage collectors on the streets of Paris give the city a gruesome image on this spring night: the Blacks Blocs are in the streets, their faces covered and dressed in black. There are death threats to deputies who voted against the motion of no confidence and are asking for protection from the police.

extended rage

Popular tension worries the country and its leaders. They call President Macron make a “gesture” to resume dialogue, when violence and social explosion spread throughout the country on Monday night.

Parisian restaurants empty out of fear of demonstrations, gas, not being able to go home and burning cars. “Yesterday evening I passed through the Porte de Italie and it was the war when I returned home. That’s why there isn’t a crowded table tonight. We are closing now”, admitted the maitre d’ of the Bistrot de Dome, in Montparnasse.

There are fires in the districts of St Lazare station, rue de Rennes, the Opera and Odeon district, in the heart of St Germain. Protesters are calling for a “general strike” and the resignation of Emmanuel Macron. There are demonstrations in Lyon, Toulouse, Lille, Strasbourg and the suburbs of Paris.

The CFDT’s moderate union leader, Laurent Berger, warned tonight that “we are creating the biggest social crisis in ten years and the biggest political crisis in 30 years. They are going to impose a Rejected the pension reform from the majority of opinions,” he warned.

“It will cause deep resentment,” said Social Democrat Berger, who called on the president to “withdraw the reform.” If the president does not withdraw it, it will be enforced and will cause deep resentment and anger in the world of work. It’s very dangerous”he warned.

Prime Minister Elizabeth Borne said she would “immediately bring reform to the Constitutional Council. But while she won, she was politically defeated on the motion.

willing to continue

Without speaking to the French, President Emmanuel Macron believes that it is necessary to continue with the reform that will allow others. Tomorrow he will have breakfast with the President of the National Assembly and with the president of the Senate, who will meet the parliamentarians of the majority at the Elysée on Tuesday evening.

Prime Minister Elizabeth Borne meets majority groups at Palazzo Matignon this evening.

But France plunges this Monday into an unknown political moment, with its society in a state of rebellion in the name of social democracy.

Sandra Ousseau of EELV NUPES believes that “the country has entered the crisis of the end of the regime and that we immerse ourselves in an unknown political moment.

“He was the president of the rich. He now he is the president of chaos ”. This is how Sophie Binet, a member of the confederal executive commission of the CGT, defined it tonight.

“The only solution is the withdrawal of pension reforms. It is necessary for the government of Emmanuel Macron to understand this message of wisdom,” he said.

The parliamentary motion of no confidence against Marine Le Pen’s government was unsuccessful, garnering only 94 votes. But now the leader of the former Front National is asking “Macron to present a new government to the French. The crisis will not be resolved if he doesn’t”.

Jean Luc Melénchon, ideologist of Nupes, called for “popular censorship in all places and circumstances”. we must resist in the squares until they withdraw the reform.

Conservative republicans did not obey the suggestions: at least 19 deputies voted for the motion of no confidence in the government, the surprise came when Dino Cinier, lieutenant of boss Eric Ciotti, voted in favor of the motion.

The president of the National Assembly today sent the request for a referendum on the reforms to the Constitutional Council. A request of the Communists, which must be supported by 4,870,000 million voters, who must support the motion in the next 9 months.