Paris (AFP)
A few hundred people opposed to the pension reform gathered quietly on Saturday night in Paris near the National Assembly to say "no to 49.3", noted an AFP journalist.
This spontaneous rally, launched on social networks, took place in a calm atmosphere, and the demonstrators were kept at a distance on the Concorde bridge by the police, about 200 meters from the Assembly.
In the middle of a few anti-capitalist slogans, they chanted in particular "Everyone hates Édouard Philippe", after the Prime Minister's decision to use 49.3 to adopt the pension reform, or "We are there, even if Macron does not want , here we are ".
Karine and Aurélia, two teachers mobilized "for months" against the pension reform, came "spontaneously" to denounce the "contempt ++ of the government".
"It's pitiful, we hallucinate," they said, without being "surprised that the 49.3 falls: from the start, the government lies to us, pretends that there is nobody in the street".
He said he feared "bans on demonstrations on the pretext of the coronavirus". "It would be playing a very dangerous game."
Other demonstrators laughingly refuse to kiss each other because of the coronavirus, even if "the real epidemic is 49.3".
Around 10 p.m., some demonstrators gradually left the area, in small groups, towards Place de la Concorde, filtered by the police.
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