They responded to the national appeal of a number of unions, collectives and other associations. Between 300 and 400 demonstrators gathered at Place Darcy in Dijon this Saturday afternoon April 16 to express their opposition to the far right.. They were 320 according to the police. The procession between the Porte Guillaume and the Place de la République took place without incident. The watchword of this mobilization: the refusal to see Marine Le Pen come to power.
“Neither”
The classic : “first, second, third generation, we are all children of immigrants, “was chanted at the end of the course. The same voice and yet different choices for the second round. A man holds up a sign “After the covid, the plague or the cholera”, later a woman put on cardboard than for her also, it will be “neither one nor the other” on Sunday.
“We do not have the choice”
In front of them: Paul Garrigues, first of the organizers to speak at the microphone and the co-president of the League of Human Rights. This time, exit the line of equality drawn between the President candidate and his opponent of the National Rally. “It’s urgent,” he explains. “It will be difficult to use the Macron newsletter, but unfortunately we have no choice. No anti-racist, no humanist can escape.”
A point of view shared by many demonstrators, voters reluctantly of the head of state. Didier is a member of Snes-Fsu. He nods his head to say that he will vote for Emmanuel Macron, but this voter of La France Insoumise chooses a convolution to explain his choice: ” We will have to do what is necessary so that Marine Le Pen is not in power. We cannot be in a France which will be so divided, it would be unlivable!“