Five weeks before the first round of the presidential election, two candidates for the Elysée, Yannick Jadot and Anne Hidalgo, joined the Parisian procession, with elected officials LREM and LR.
“Save Ukraine” and “Putin Murderer” : in the middle of the yellow and blue flags, some 41,600 people marched on Saturday March 5 throughout France to denounce the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, according to figures from the Ministry of the Interior. On the tenth day of the offensive ordered by the Russian president, they were around 16,000 in Paris, according to the same source.
In Lyon, a few hundred people gathered at Place Bellecour to express their support for President Volodymyr Zelensky and his population, subjected in several cities to bombardments by the Moscow army. Some 500 people also demonstrated in the Old Port in Marseille, according to the prefecture. “Close the Ukrainian skies”, “avoid a nuclear catastrophe”, demanded the demonstrators, a thousand according to the police, in Rennes. Five weeks before the first round of the presidential election, two candidates for the Elysée, Yannick Jadot (EELV) and Anne Hidalgo (PS), joined the Parisian procession, with elected officials LREM and LR.
More rallies in support of Ukraine are planned for this weekend across Europe. Tens of thousands marched in Zurich, Switzerland, and several hundred more in London. A week ago, hundreds of thousands of people in yellow and blue colors took to the streets: a few thousand in Russia, at least 100,000 in Berlin, 70,000 in Prague, 40,000 in Madrid in particular.