A new cycle of demonstrations unfolded throughout France in opposition to the president Emmanuel Macron and bill for pensions. This is about “11th day of strikewhich takes place after the meeting of the trade unions with the prime minister Elizabeth Bornwhich did not give a solution.

Throughout the march they were marked incidents on the streets of the French capital with protesters from black block to clash with the forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which responded with chemicals and stun grenades.

It is reported by Le Monde. 111 people were arrestedBye 154 police officers were injured“some seriously,” according to the French interior minister.

They were also challenged great material damage: Cars were engulfed in flames, bus stops were destroyed and trash cans were set on fire.

At the beginning of the march in Paris, an attack was made on a restaurant where the French president was celebrating victory in the first round of the 2017 presidential election.

Firefighters intervened in time and put out the fire that broke out at his entrance. La Rotondawhich came under fire again in 2020 at “yellow vest” marches.

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Decline in participation

CGT union announces it has taken part in demonstrations in Paris 400 000 demonstrators, slightly less than the previous time on March 28, when 450,000 demonstrators were also reported in the capital and 93,000 to the authorities.

Turnout also declined in major French cities. IN Wrena stronghold of protesters, the prefecture was talking about 8,500 citizens taking to the streets, and the unions are talking about 20,000.

The same trend seems to have prevailed in other large cities of western France, for example in Nantes (between 15,000 and 50,000 people) and in Brest (from 10,000 to 18,000), but also in the south, in Good (from 2400 to 20,000) and Marseilles (from 10,000 to 17,000) or even in central France, in Clermont-Ferrand (from 7,500 to 20,000).

Last night, authorities predicted a less massive nationwide demonstration of 600,000 to 800,000 people, of which 60,000 to 90,000 were in Paris.

A total of 11,500 police and gendarmes were mobilized.

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“What those in power do can be overturned by the people,” protesters chanted in the city. Wren in western France with placards reading “Fight for our pensions” and “Strike, blockade, Macron is leaving.”

Union leaders and protesters said the only way out of the crisis withdrawal of legislationan option that Macron and Born have repeatedly rejected.

“There is no other solution but to withdraw the reform,” said the new leader of the hardline union. CGT, Sophie Binetat the beginning of the collection in Paris.

OUR Laurent Bergerhead of the largest trade union in the country CFDTcalled for “the maximum number of workers, men and women, to join the marches throughout France”.

Thursday’s moves may indicate whether the rally is losing momentum. The previous day of protests, March 28, drew fewer people, with 740,000 people protesting across the country, down from a record 1.28 million on March 7, according to the Home Office.