About 200 people, including figures "yellow vests" Jérôme Rodrigues or Priscilla Ludosky, were gathered Sunday quietly in Paris for a second day of commemoration of the first anniversary of the movement.
"We hope to reap the fruits of what we sowed"
Participants were quietly gathered in a square near Les Halles, in the heart of the capital. "Macron destroys France and your rights, do not criticize us! We're here for you", could we read on a sign, or hear the usual songs of "yellow vests": "We're here, we're here, even if Macron does not want it, we're here. " "Today we have organized this new day because it is the anniversary weekend, we hope to reap the fruits of what we sowed," said Faouzi Lellouche, one of the organizers of this gathering and also of the demonstration Saturday that was to leave at 14 o'clock in the square of Italy and was canceled by the police headquarters after violence.
Faouzi Lellouche denounced "a political decision, and it is a strategy to nasser us (encircle by the police)". "At 1:30 pm, the police chief of the demonstration called me to tell me that the demo was going to be canceled, and I got angry and asked him: 'But why ?: just because of pallet fires. "Open (the security device) and people will be moving around and it's going to be OK, stop trying to find reasons to prevent us from demonstrating," he told AFP.
"I do not know if December 5 is a horizon"
Saturday, Priscillia Ludoski, co-organizer of the event, had tweeted: "Nasse instead of Italy, impossible to leave, event declared canceled at the last minute". "We did not get a political response except scorn It is not normal that we have so much repression," she said Sunday at the rally near Les Halles. Asked about the interprofessional strike of 5 December against the pension reform, she said that "since the beginning (movement of" yellow vests ") there are convergences on many topics. the street now ".
"I do not know if December 5 is a horizon but I know that there are many union members who 'vestjunjaunisent' because they realize that their elites are floundering," said Jerome Rodrigues said. On Sunday, the police headquarters announced that it had carried out 372 preventive checks and arrested nine people since the beginning of the morning.