Chloé Lagadou 07:10, March 20, 2023

They are still there, determined to make their voices heard. Opponents of the pension reform were hundreds in Marseille, Lyon but also Paris to denounce the passage in force of the pension reform with the use of 49.3. From the Halles de Châtelet to Bastille, a look back at a new day and evening of protest.

For the fourth consecutive evening, rallies were held in several cities in France. In the country's largest cities, French people gathered to denounce the pension reform and the government's use of 49.3. In Paris, they were 350 to sing in chorus around and in the Westfield shopping center of the Forum des Halles this Saturday.

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Gathered in front of the Canopée, hundreds of demonstrators chanted slogans in a good-natured atmosphere. After spontaneous mobilizations, an additional tool to make oneself heard. "It allows a little to differ," Ziad told Europe 1. "The unions have their organisation as it is. We, the French, are taking the fight head on. I think at some point, after a week, two weeks, three weeks of doing this every night, if we hold on and the movement grows, at some point, they're going to crack."

The game of cat and mouse

Around 19 p.m., the procession starts in the streets. The police intervened and snapped up the protesters. Then the police escort the demonstrators in small groups to the subway entrances. But on social networks, a new appointment is launched. Demonstrators then take the direction of the Gare de Lyon, in the 12th arrondissement of Paris: then begins the game of cat and mouse between police and demonstrators.

This time, no gathering, but small groups of hooded people who set fire to a dozen garbage cans on their way. Then direction Place de la Bastille. It is 23:30 p.m. and the movement is dissolving in the streets of the capital. In total, 169 people were arrested this weekend, including 122 in Paris.