“We will not let them go!”: In the wake of similar episodes in recent days, the travels of several ministers were disrupted, Monday in France, by concerts of saucepans as a protest against the pension reform.
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In Lyon, the Minister of Education Pap Ndiaye even had to postpone a visit to a teacher training institute where a hundred demonstrators were waiting for him at the beginning of the afternoon who tried to enter the building. observed by AFP journalists.
Armed with pots, pans, buckets, whistles or fog horns, the demonstrators forced one of the entrances by shouting “we too will go through in force”, an allusion to the procedure without a vote in the Assembly on the text (known as “49.3 “), pressed to adopt the unpopular pension reform.
“We will not let them go until the reform is withdrawn. We will not let the members of the government come to the cities until the text is withdrawn, ”said Frédéric Volle, 47-year-old teacher and union representative, among the demonstrators.
The minister, he did not show up at the scheduled time, but he denied any backsliding, finally going to the institute later in the late afternoon.
On the move at the same time in a hospital in Poitiers, the Minister of Health François Braun arrived there to the sound of pans and to the boos of a few dozen demonstrators, who had responded to a call from the CGT union and were held to good distance by the police.
In Sarthe, it was the Minister of Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti who was greeted by a noisy concert during a trip to a prison.
About 150 protesters, according to an AFP photographer, began banging on a multitude of kitchen utensils an hour and a half before the minister arrived. At the end of his visit, the latter went to greet the demonstrators, according to a union official.
Secretary of State for Children Charlotte Caubel canceled a planned visit to a hospital in the Paris region. His entourage ensures that it is a simple postponement of 24 hours due to a “conflict of agenda”.
Monday evening, many pot concerts in front of the town halls were planned around 8 p.m. at the call of the anti-globalization association Attac, to mark the first anniversary of the re-election of President Emmanuel Macron.
