Several hundred "yellow vests" demonstrated Saturday in Paris, nearly eight months after the start of the social protest movement.
To the usual slogan "Macron resignation" were added "Lobsters everywhere, justice nowhere", or "De Rugy in prison", echoing the cases that splash the Minister of Ecology and former President of the National Assembly François de Rugy.
"It's out of the question to let go"
"We want to express a dissatisfaction with a president who took all the powers, ministers who drink wine at 500 euros ... That's all we need to review: work, pensions, school, hospital, "says Henri, a retired Parisian, a former employee of the SNCF and came for his 35th event in a row:" I'm here from the beginning! ".
Alain, another retired, said he came "to support people in difficulty". He assures that the movement will continue during the summer, despite the sharply decreasing mobilization in recent weeks in Paris and other cities. "Of course, it will take the time it takes, it is out of the question to let go, as long as people who are well off do not listen to people in trouble," he says.
250 people in Bordeaux
Some slight incidents occurred on the route in the east of the capital, the police using tear gas, sometimes after being hit by projectiles. Protesters were prevented from entering the Gare de Lyon and were dispersed before the end of the planned route near the Austerlitz station. Some people were also arrested, AFP said.
In Bordeaux, long a stronghold of the movement, they were only about 250 to demonstrate, including slogans "We want lobster!", "De Rugy, Rugy, here rent is not free! ".