Between 200,000 and 250,000 folks participated within the blocking motion | EUROtoday

Alexandre Humbert, musician, doesn’t comply with usually “Not much news” But there, coming to the occasion ranging from the city corridor of Lille, at 2:30 p.m. exactly, appeared apparent, as to his spouse, Camille. The forties are relieved, they are saying, of “To find yourself in this atmosphere, the one on the left”.

The crowd is massaged and grows, quickly there shall be tens of 1000’s of demonstrators alongside a procession that exceeds the kilometer at sure instances, lengthy snake the place a very good -natured ambiance reigns, with combined flags, far left political teams, unions, household planning, younger folks, outdated, brass bands, some dad and mom with kids on bikes.

The calls for revolve round well being, training, in opposition to a background of mistrust of the federal government. “There is a separate caste that dominates everything”mentioned Wolf Blanc, cultural animator and creator. Besides him, Olivier Gillioz dissects discomfort at work, income erosion, the crumbling life. The two buddies have no idea if “A movement [comme ça] Coming from the base to a chance to succeed, but since the others more framed in a traditional way give nothing … Let us seek a transversal path ”.

Later in the afternoon, while the long procession crossed Lille in an atmosphere of Kermesse, clashes explode as Sebastopol’s theater approaches, rue de Solférino. The police coat with gas, the hiccup procession, cries, howls, ends up passing nevertheless under the water cannons to reach the Place de la République where the dispersion will force itself.

Noria, used to demonstrations, has traveled the procession in all directions to be certain to see its size, so long, and its diversity – “All social classes were there, including the middle classes and the sores. »» It smells in the air that burns something other than tear gas: “There is one thing that escapes this authorities … It didn’t anticipate this quantity, this mobilization. And we really feel that there’s a flaw, we really feel that there’s a weak point. »» And to element the police violence of the day by concluding: “We entered a radical state of the State. »»