Since this morning, the roundabout of Baratière is colored yellow. Some protesters, they are more than one hundred this afternoon. They set up a filter dam. The mobilized manifest in a relative calm, the sound of the tubes spewed by a radio speaker and the sound of firecrackers.
Among the first mobilized, bikers, like Frederic. He has just come back from Rennes, where he took part in the operation to block the ring road. "It's going well, there was no overflow. "
Beside him, Guillaume Cottier. This entrepreneur demonstrates for the first time. What marks him is the diversity of the protesters: "There is everything. Young people, retirees, heads of big or small businesses ... there are all layers of society. "
On the demand side, the slogan is " the shambles". Notably Marine, 22, and Stephanie, 40: "we're fed up with taxes, policies that have huge salaries, that do not deprive ourselves of anything and we, we have none of that. "
Stéphanie argues: "I am young with three children and I have to struggle. In the group around her, worries fuse: retirement, EHPAD, education prices for children ... In Vitre as elsewhere "reasons for anger" are many and varied.
Until what time will they stay in place at the Baratière roundabout? For now, no one knows ....