Several thousand yellow vests mobilized this Saturday in Paris, Toulouse, Strasbourg or Mulhouse, against pension reform, inflation and rising energy costs.
Some 4,700 people mobilized on Saturday in France at the call of the yellow vests, including 2,000 in Paris, to denounce the policy of Emmanuel Macron, the future pension reform, inflation or even to ask for an overhaul of the institutions, according to Interior Ministry figures.
The demonstrators, who left Place Breteuil (7th arrondissement), around 2:45 p.m., to reach the Place du Bataillon du Pacifique (10th arrondissement), had more demands to defend, such as their opposition to the pension reform, and wishing to recall the importance of inflation and the cost of energy.
Among the politicians present in this procession, supervised by several hundred gendarmes and CRS, were in particular the deputies LFI Antoine Léaument and Thomas Portes.
The demonstration, which had been relayed on social networks, crossed the south of Paris to the rhythm of anti-Macron songs but without the violence or clashes between demonstrators and the police which marked the yellow vests movement initially launched in November 2018. against the increase in fuel taxes and which has since largely withered.
Structure yourself differently?
Other gatherings were organized in France. The Ministry of the Interior counted 2,700 participants for 58 listed actions.
According to Sylvain Boulouque, a historian specializing in trade unionism and social movements, “it no longer prints”.
“More than a breathlessness it is a very weak mobilization which resembles some militant cores. Which is not surprising because a social movement appears spontaneously, to maintain it in an identical form often results in a failure for the people who seek to maintain it. Perhaps they should have structured themselves differently.
If the mobilization does not seem to have gathered as many people as hoped, that of January 21, entitled “march for our pensions” and organized by LFI, is seen as the high point of the resumption of the movement.