Since three in Fougères, they are more than a thousand yellow vests to demonstrate against the rise in fuel prices and more broadly against the decline in purchasing power. Women and men of all ages and all social categories. Testimonials.
Nelly, 50: " We are not invisible "
" I was fired unjustly in May 2018. A trial will be held soon but in the meantime I find myself unemployed. I
I am apparently too old to work and too young to be retired! And if I put on the yellow vest it is because we would like to make us believe that those like me, who do not work, would not have the right to express themselves and to shout their ras-le-bol . Well, I say no. We are not invisible. Me I touch 380 € per month and 95 € widow's pension, how do you want me to be? The situation is such that my 20-year-old daughter has come home to support me financially. It's just crazy. "
Thierry, 53: "Where's my money going? "
" I feel fully concerned about the movement of yellow vests because like many, I wonder today where my money goes. Because frankly I want to give but I also want to know what it serves because I do not see any improvement in my daily life and in that of my fellow citizens. Yet, it is not for want of paying taxes. I would like the state budget to be more readable and more transparent. And that in a world where there are the very rich, the very poor and us - the middle class as we are called - well I preferred to be sure that my money was used to help the poor and not to serve the poor. interests of the better off. "
Marjorie, 38: "Continue to mobilize day after day "
" I have been in the field since Saturday. There, I even asked leave to be able to continue demonstrating this week and so swell the ranks of the yellow vests. Continue to mobilize day after day, a necessity if we do not want to see this movement go out almost as fast as it appeared. I am an official. I live with my husband and two children in Saint-Marc-le-Blanc, and every day we travel more than 100 km to work in Rennes. Since the increase in fuel, caste 16 € more per full gas, a shortfall of 80 €! The equivalent of a week of racing. So yes, the government offers bonuses to change vehicles and switch to electric but for people like us whose cars have too many kilometers on the clock it is simply not possible. We do not have the means. "
Stéphane, 30: " Unity is strength as we say "
" I live, finally I survive with 819 €, so inevitably at the end of the month I end up discovered like a lot of French. But you know, if I joined the yellow vests this is not to defend my own interests but those of everyone because just about everyone is almost in shit. Employees as well as the unemployed. After I know that people have their free will and I do not force anyone to share my ideas but I still find it important to talk with motorists to try to rally them to our cause. The union is strength as they say. "