“No one will be able to tell us or retort that we did not alert the president.” The secretary general of the CGT, Philippe Martinez, reacted on Europe 1, Saturday March 18, following the rallies organized on Friday to demonstrate against the pension reform and dozens of arrests in Paris and Lyon. “We had alerted the President of the Republic. In a letter where we asked to be received, we mentioned in black and white an explosive situation”, also underlined Philippe Martinez. He thus conceded that“on the sidelines of the demonstrations, there are problems”, while specifying that the last major mobilizations against the bill were held “in a good way, calmly, with specific slogans against the age of 64”. Follow our live.
More than 60 arrests in Paris and 36 Lyon Friday evening. In all, 61 people were arrested there on Friday evening after a rally at Place de la Concorde in Paris, according to the police headquarters. In Lyon, 36 people were arrested, announced the prefecture, which mentioned a “vandalized town hall”. After breaking down the front door of the building, they managed to enter and then they “tried to set fire”but “the police intervened quickly and succeeded” turn it off, she said. Incidents which led the authority to ban the demonstrations planned in Lyon from noon on Saturday, according to progress.
After 49.3, mobilizations planned for this weekend. The unions plan “local neighborhood gatherings” this weekend to continue the protest against the unpopular pension reform. On their side, thehe SNCF unions are calling for “keep on strike” renewable and “to act massively” next Thursday.
Two motions of censure tabled to overthrow the government. And this, the day after his decision to use 49.3 to pass the highly contested pension reform. These motions tabled by the independent group Liot and the RN must be examined in the Assembly on Monday from 3:30 p.m.