This restaurant in the Montparnasse district was targeted on Thursday during the 11th day of mobilization. This is where Emmanuel Macron celebrated his score in the first round of the 2017 presidential election.
Jets of projectiles of all kinds, bottles flying and cobblestones crashing in large numbers on the windows of the Rotunda… but above all mainly on the gendarmes deployed all around the establishment. Leaving the Esplanade des Invalides towards Place d’Italie, the Parisian procession of the 11th national mobilization against the pension reform on Thursday April 6 suddenly heated up on its arrival in Montparnasse.
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The employees of this restaurant popular with Emmanuel Macron, who had celebrated his score there in the first round of the 2017 presidential election, admit to having been very shocked by this violence, when individuals, masked faces, stones in their hands, emerged from a crowd, until then very quiet.
“You shouldn’t attack them.disapproves a demonstrator. We must attack those who give the orders.” “There is a smoke bomb that was thrown at La Rotonde so that it burnscalmly describes this other protester, who explains: because it is Macron and those in power who adore the Rotunda. Me, I do extras in bars, otherwise, I’m at the RSA.”
“It’s more than a symbol, it’s that we can’t eat well like that, so it’s normal that at some point, they take the backlash.”
A young protesterat franceinfo
On February 17, a “yellow vest” was sentenced to four years in prison, three of which were suspended for having tried to burn down the brewery in 2020. On May 1, 2019, impressive police protection had been deployed around the restaurant, the police fearing a “Fouquet’s syndrome”.
When asked about the follow-up to the opinion of the Constitutional Council on April 14, the young demonstrator sweeps away “we do not care”, still as phlegmatic. Nicolas, 39, a bicycle delivery man, is not so decided. For him, “Yes, there is a hope that they will still censor the age at least at 64. For the rest, we’ll see. It’s Fabius, someone rather on the left”he hopes, before trying to continue in an increasingly furious procession.
The protests gathered on Thursday, April 6 “nearly two million” participants throughout France, according to the unions, 570,000, according to the Ministry of the Interior. The inter-union calls for a new day of national mobilization on April 13 on the eve of the decision of the Constitutional Council.