More than 300,000 individuals demonstrated in France, in accordance with the CGT; The PS publicizes complaints after the assault on its stand within the Paris procession | EUROtoday

While unemployment continues its rise, threats to employment consumed Thursday 1^er May, the mobilization of conventional union processions additionally resonated for fears for peace and stability on the planet. More than 300,000 individuals, together with 100,000 in Paris, demonstrated within the nation affirmed the CGT to the Agency France-Presse (AFP). The authorities’ determine was not instantly obtainable.

“This day of demonstration is a great success, we have identified 270 events throughout France and at this stage we have 250,000 demonstrators, so the total balance sheet will be higher”stated on LCI the quantity one of many union, Sophie Binet.

In the port metropolis of Dunkirk, a number of hundred individuals gathered within the morning on Thursday on the name of the CGT, to protest towards the deletion plan of round 600 positions introduced by ArcelorMittal in its websites within the North and East of France. “Let’s confiscate dividends”,, “Nationalization of ArcelorMittal”might we learn on indicators.

Several leftist political leaders, together with the primary secretary of the Socialist Party (PS), Olivier Faure, the assorted left deputy, François Ruffin, the National Secretary of Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, or the President La France Insoumise (LFI) of the Economic Affairs Committee, Aurélie discovered, had been current alongside the demonstrators. In Metz, workers of ArcelorMittal Florange, the place 113 jobs have to be deleted, had been additionally current. “There are the bowl of those who sell the hospital to pay bursts”proclaimed the demonstrators.

In Paris, the demonstration set off at 2 p.m. from Place d’Italie to Place de la Nation. Speaking earlier than the beginning of the procession, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the chief of rebellious France, spoke of ArcelorMottal by calling for “Nationalize” the corporate. He additionally requested for the return of retirement at 60: “We will continue the battle for the eight hours of work per day, the thirty-five hours, and we will continue to fight for retirement at 60”promised the founding father of rebellious France. Mr. Mélenchon referred to as on the left to unite two years from the presidential election. “For so long, it was the unions that united 1^er-Mai and the working class around the world. Well today, alas, such a unit was not possible! It is therefore up to politics to do your job and say “it’s a must to change the world if you wish to change the work” “he insisted.

He additionally talked about, with out appointing him, Aboubakar Cissé, killed on April 25 with some forty stabs in a mosque in La Grand-Combe (Gard). The triple presidential candidate, notably stated that “Islamophobia and racism are the invention of powerful to divide the people”. “The 1^er-Ith is for us an anti -racist gathering and racists of all periods, of all eras, have always known it ”added Mr. Mélenchon.

The Paris parade was marked by clashes around a stand of the Socialist Party (PS). According to an AFP journalist, demonstrators dressed in black, some wearing antifa flags, strongly challenged and jostled 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 in a tense atmosphere.

The socialist MEP, Chloé Ridel, said on X that the socialists have ” was insulted after which attacked by black blocks: they torn off our flags and banners, kicked, punches, launched firecrackers ”she stated, writing not having “Words strong enough to condemn hatred and violence we faced”. “For me, it was black blocks and antifas”additionally estimated the deputy (PS) Jérôme Guedj, specifying: “These people turned a lot towards me to insult me. »» Jérôme Guedj, who had to leave a rally on Sunday against Islamophobia after having suffered invectives with anti -Semitic hints, this time had to be dismissed from the procession, according to television images.

“Complaints are in court docket”, warned Olivier Faure. “We is not going to let something. We won’t ever settle for the violence of fanatics which don’t serve any trigger and destroy collective fights ”wrote on X the primary secretary of the PS, thanking “The order service and the activists who intervened with courage to avoid the worst”.

“” The police intervened to safe the premises and perform arrests », Himself stated the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, additionally on X. “We will not back down to political violence that the far left tries to install in our country”he added.

Asked about LCI, the secretary common of the CGT, Sophie Binet, replied that “These are violence that are not welcome in these processions”. According to a provisional evaluation of the prefecture, 29 individuals had been arrested on the finish of the afternoon on Thursday.

Arrests in Nantes

In the opposite processions, the demonstrators had been between 15,000, in accordance with the CGT, and three,600, in accordance with the prefecture, in Marseille. They had been additionally between 6,500, in accordance with the prefecture, and 10,000 in accordance with the organizers, in Toulouse, 2,900 in Strasbourg, 1,800 in Brest and a couple of,350 in Bordeaux, in accordance with the prefectures, and a couple of,200 in Nancy.

In Nantes, the place 5,000 individuals gathered in accordance with the authorities, clashes occurred between demonstrators and the police who used water cannons. The Loire-Atlantique prefecture has introduced that “Protesters have degraded the prefecture and thrown projectiles as well as mortars against the police”including that fifteen individuals had been arrested.

For International Workers’ Day, the CGT had referred to as with the FSU, Solidaires and Youth Organizations (Student Union, UNEF, FAGE, USL) to parade “Against the extreme right, for peace, freedoms and social justice”. 100 days after the arrival of the American president, Donald Trump, in energy, these commerce union organizations additionally need to make at the present time a spotlight “Against the world of the world”in accordance with Thomas Vacheron, CGT supervisor. “For the past three months, we have heard the question of war, the question of debt, the question of insecurity, the question of immigration, but never social issues”regretted the secretary common of the CGT, Sophie Binet, on Franceinfo.

For their half, the quantity one of many CFDT, Marylise Léon, and his counterpart of the UNSA, Laurent Escure, discovered themselves within the heart of Paris for a spherical desk on work. For m^me Leon, it was a query of getting an area to evoke “The work crisis”,, “The great unthought of the moment”.

This conventional assembly was held when the federal government has supported a invoice geared toward authorizing sure professions to make workers work on 1^er-Mai, the one public vacation and unemployed in France. “There are people who want to work in the country and when they are on a voluntary basis, with a doubling of salary, they must be able to do it”judged the Minister of Labor on Thursday, Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet on RTL. It have to be“We leave [la loi] as it is “claimed the secretary common of the CFDT, Marylise Léon, on TF1/LCI.