Louise Sallé 11:28 am, March 28, 2023

This Tuesday, between 650,000 and 900,000 demonstrators are preparing to beat the pavement against the pension reform. At the René-Cassin Center, site of the Sorbonne University, students block access to the university gates.

Mortar fire on the ring road of Rennes, ring road blocked in Caen, dump truck depot hampered in Aubervilliers... The tenth day of mobilization against the pension reform begins strong this Tuesday morning. 650,000 to 900,000 people are expected to march everywhere in France according to the intelligence services. Students are already mobilized at the René-Cassin Center, one of the sites of the Sorbonne University, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. They block access to the building.

"Standing until retreat"

They are about fifteen students wrapped up in their down jackets, sometimes driven by the rhythm of music played by a speaker. Many tags adorn the façade of the faculty with different inscriptions such as "Standing until retirement" or "Angry Youth". Some were freshly drawn on Tuesday morning. Self-service bicycles and scooters block the entrance to the gates and garbage cans in number.

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"We gather items that we find on the street like big garbage cans that we bring back to the university. Emergency entrances and exits are barricaded. We use self-service scooters, bicycles and scooters from the municipality," says Manuel.

A radicalization of the movement

Albane is pleased to see more and more people supporting the blockade of this university: "There has been a radicalization of the movement and a massification of student numbers. Since the use of article 49.3 of our Constitution, anger has been brewing on other aspects than the pension reform and we will say on a question more civilizational model proposed by Emmanuel Macron."

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Other angers emanate from this movement. All these students will take part in the demonstration this afternoon. Nevertheless, they could lack reinforcement on the side of high school students, many do not block their schools because of the practical tests of specialties, SVT and physics-chemistry of the baccalaureate organized this Tuesday.