“Yellow vests” attempted a timid return to roundabouts on Saturday in various places in France to protest against rising energy prices and falling purchasing power, AFP journalists noted.
In Châlons-en-Champagne, for example, a small score of "yellow vests" occupied a roundabout on the outskirts of the city in the morning.
"We are apolitical but we no longer find ourselves in this government or in the candidates for the presidential election, we want a candidate who knows social misery", explained a member of the Chalonnais collective Liberté Citoyenne.
The demonstrators demanded the establishment of the citizens' initiative referendum (RIC), a central demand of the movement since the first occupations of roundabouts in the fall of 2018.
"Live, yes, survive, no"
In Toulouse, between twenty and thirty people gathered at the emblematic roundabout of "Socamil", to the south-west of the city, with signs such as "Vivre, oui, survivre, non" or "No peace without justice. ".
On the spot, they denounced "police violence" or the decline in living standards, noted an AFP journalist.
"We do not even earn the hourly minimum wage, we do not even have a full-time job and we have too many children in our care to be able to take care of them properly", explained a woman in her thirties. years posing as an educator.
"Convergence of struggles" with the anti-sanitary pass
About fifty "yellow vests" gathered in the afternoon at the Buers roundabout in Villeurbanne, a suburb of Lyon, said the prefecture, according to which they quickly dispersed.
In Vendée, about twenty of them gathered at Les Herbiers to join a roundabout in La Roche-sur-Yon in a snail operation, according to
Ouest-France
.
During this 14th Saturday of mobilization against the anti-Covid measures put in place by the government, “yellow vests” also reinforced, as every week, the anti-health pass demonstrations.
Thus in Pau, a former stronghold of "yellow vests", where a procession gathered 700 people in the direction of a roundabout which was briefly occupied for about twenty minutes, according to an AFP correspondent.
In Caen, they were 270, including about thirty “yellow vests”, to demonstrate against the rise in fuel prices and for a “convergence of struggles”.
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