29,500 participants in Paris, according to Occurrence

The procession set off from the Place de la Nation around 2:30 p.m. towards the Bastille, Sunday, October 16.

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29,500 demonstrators gathered this Sunday in Paris according to the count of the cabinet Occurrence carried out for a collective of media, including franceinfo. They gathered to walk between Place de la Nation and Place de la Bastille at the call of the Nupes, against the high cost of living and climate inaction.

The left united in the Nupes organized this day of mobilization, with the support of associations and certain trade union federations. The writer Annie Ernaux, recently awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, had taken her place at the head of the procession with various leaders of the Nupes, including the rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Mathilde Panot, the ecologists Sandrine Rousseau and Eric Piolle or the socialist Olivier Faure as well as a procession of the PCF, without Fabien Roussel.


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