Speech by Emmanuel Macron: opponents still mobilized

As the president prepares to speak, Monday, April 17, the concert begins. Emmanuel Macron appears on the screen, but no one listens to him. “I don’t see what more he has to tell us tonight than what he has told us so far.”, says an opponent. The same sounds of pans resounded in nearly 300 cities.

A demonstration in Paris

The rallies were initiated by the anti-globalization association Attac, a symbol of an impossible dialogue with the president. “Macron doesn’t want to listen to us, so we won’t listen to him either“, comments a woman. In Paris, the rally, initially good-natured, continued in an unauthorized demonstration, with about fifteen garbage can fires in the streets. In Lyon (Rhône), a group managed to enter the town hall of the 1st arrondissement, and the walls of the entrance have been tagged.