Paris (AFP)
Hundreds of "yellow vests" parade quietly Saturday in Paris, supervised by a large police, to recall that their claims remained unchanged and against the summit of the G7 which opened in Biarritz.
For the occasion, some of them brandished placards on which one could read "G7 -> no Gfaim -> yes".
"It's been three months that I had not come, with the holidays, fatigue and then I said to myself + I must come back +, because there is nothing that has changed, nothing," laments Anthony Lheraud, a medico-psychological help from Nanterre.
"We always ask the RIC (referendum citizen initiative), increasing the SMIC, to care for beggars," said the young man of 28 years in the procession party at the midday of the Boulevard de Grenelle, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.
"The RIC, it exists in Switzerland, California, France it would be very good, it would not be anarchy," says Olivier Pham, a 48-year-old maintenance engineer who defines himself as a "right to the rightist ".
He adds that he was "shocked by the violence of some police officers" during previous demonstrations of "yellow vests". This unprecedented social movement was born on November 17 against a backdrop of rising taxes before spreading to a series of claims.
The demands of "yellow vests"? "The same as nine months ago!", Strangled Annie, 72, and Stephanie, 45, mother and daughter who make the road from Seine-et-Marne since the beginning of the movement.
"The price of gas has gone up, the government (...) is despising us, we are being robbed of money for giant lobsters," says Annie, surgical mask on the face, referring to the case that pushed former minister François de Rugy to resign.
At the stop at the Sèvres-Lecourbe metro station, immobilized by a police device, the procession is animated, in particular, by another "yellow vest" which also thought of this summer episode: it carries a giant plastic lobster in shoulder.
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