demonstrations against the adoption of the text planned for Sunday throughout France

Several processions will march in around a hundred cities to ask the President of the Republic to reverse this text, which toughens France’s policy concerning immigrant students and workers in particular.

Citizen marches against a controversial text. In Bordeaux, Nantes and even Paris, calls for demonstrations have been launched in anticipation of Sunday January 21, in order to demand the withdrawal of the law on immigration, adopted by Parliament in chaos at the end of December. The demonstrators hope to influence the President of the Republic, while the Constitutional Council must decide on January 25 on the conformity of the text. According to the January 21 website, which lists the planned demonstrations, 164 meeting places have been set in 95 French departments.

“In our diversity of ideas, commitments, professions, we express our great concern after the vote on the immigration law., declared a collective formed by 201 personalities, at the origin of the call to demonstrate. Among them, many artists such as Marina Foïs, Pierre Arditi, and Josiane Balasko invite people to gather in Paris, Place du Trocadéro. “There are very beautiful things in France and we become very small again when we think like that”declared to franceinfo the actress Ariane Ascaride, also a signatory, who wants the country to remain “a safe haven”.

As detailed by France Bleu,The processions will leave at the end of Sunday morning in many cities such as Gap, Le Havre, Nantes, Clermont-Ferrand, Briançon, but also at the beginning of the afternoon as in Saint-Brieuc, Lyon, Bordeaux, Rennes, Rouen, Strasbourg , Orleans, Marseille. In Paris, the rally is planned from 2 p.m.