Since the evacuation of the Paris gate in the middle of the morning, this Sunday, November 18, it is at the gate of Spain, at the entrance to the Falaise road, that the Yellow Vests have gathered to block the access to the Caen ring road.
They are now several hundred to wear their yellow vests on the roundabout of the door of Spain, giving access to the device of Caen, this Sunday, November 18. While the sun is struggling to warm up the atmosphere in the middle of the afternoon, protesters are burning pallets and some tires.
No blocking, but we filter the passage of motorists. All entries in the roundabout are affected. At the wheel of their car, drivers are asked to put their vest on the dashboard. Emergencies, but also people moving for family reasons, are allowed to move faster.
Coming from Fleury, motorists must leave the ring road to eventually get out of the blue roundabout.
On the other side, in the direction of Cormelles-le-Royal and Paris, trucks, one registered in England, another in Romania, are across the road. "These are not refrigerated trucks, they can not ride before 10 pm tonight," says one of the blockers.
"We can not leave now"
After a few minutes of blocking, Yellow Vests let go or enter the roundabout a few vehicles. The atmosphere is rather serene, the protesters determined to stay here. "We can not leave now, otherwise it will have been useless," says Rene, retired.
The anger is still there, the blockage takes on the air of a Sunday walk, the soundtrack has just launched The caterpillar ...
On the spot, the rumors are going well: mobile gendarmes would have arrived nearby, in the district of La Guérinière, for a possible dislocation.
Around 4:30 pm, that's it, the police arrive. They face the vests, at Mc Donald's level. About fifteen meters separate the two groups. No summons for the moment, but the music that was heard until then stopped abruptly, the atmosphere suddenly cooled.
The truckers soon mobilized?
The vast majority of protesters condemn the acts of violence that would have taken place at night, the fault of alcohol abuse among a few. Acts that led the prefect and the police to intervene on Sunday morning to dislodge the group present door Paris.
"The bad behavior of some should not tarnish what we have done since Saturday morning," says a young man, who has slept only a few hours.
Some report a possible action truckers, or farmers who join the movement this Sunday evening or early in the week. No official confirmation at the moment.