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The procession of "yellow vests" gathered around a thousand people this Saturday, December 7 in Paris, where was also held a demonstration of the precarious and unemployed.
Two days after the mobilization against the pension reform , and three before the announced Tuesday, it was the turn of the precarious and unemployed to demonstrate this Saturday in Paris. In the district of Montparnasse, in the south of the capital, there were about a hundred to parade against the modification of the rules of unemployment insurance .
Since last month, these have required job seekers to have worked six months out of the last 24 months to receive compensation, against four months out of 28 so far. A change that excludes a large number of UI beneficiaries.
Another object of discontent: the pension reform, which the government must outline the contours next week. " It tries to make believe that the precarious workers will be the best roasted, while it is totally false: the retirement by points will have as main consequence the lengthening of the duration of contribution and the pension will be calculated on the whole of the career, including periods of inactivity. The first victims are the unemployed and precarious workers. With the point system, it is millions more pensioners who will be at least old age, "said Pierre Garnodier, general secretary of the CGT for the precarious and unemployed.
"Sweep in front of their door"
The demonstrators were joined by a procession of "yellow vests", which marked their 56th day of mobilization. " Basically, I had to finish at 67 years old. With their new form of calculation, I would retire at age 72, protests Magali, intermittent spectacle, yellow vest on the shoulders. I think they should first sweep in front of their door before starting to reform all the so-called privileged of France. "
Rallied by students, anti-fascist militants and trade unionists of the CGT, the "yellow vests" had left Bercy late morning, shouting the usual slogans of this social movement born November 17, 2018: "Macron resignation", "All the world hates the police. " In the early afternoon, in the Montparnasse district, incidents between protesters and police officers briefly disrupted the procession that wanted to deviate from the itinerary declared in the prefecture.
A group of protesters tried to force a barrage of police, who repelled them with their shields and tear gas canisters, a journalist from Agence France-Presse said. Some other shots of tear gas then occurred at the head of the procession. A person was evacuated on a stretcher by "street medics" , without anyone knowing immediately the seriousness of his injury.
At the end of the day, dozens of people responded to a call to gather at Les Halles for "a convergence of anger" when others went to the Grands Boulevards, in the center of Paris. These wild demonstrations were gradually dispersed by the police before the beginning of the evening.