Among the detainees are leaders of La Francia Insumisa
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At least 142 people have been arrested during the serious disturbances registered this Monday in Paris coinciding with the approval in the National Assembly of the pension reform. The opposition denounces the detention of peaceful demonstrators, including politicians from La Francia Insumisa.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of central Paris on Monday, knocked over garbage containers, set them on fire and looted shops in the most emblematic shopping streets of the French capital, according to the French press.
The Police have deployed BRAV-M riot police who have chased those responsible for these havoc on motorcycles in the Montmartre, Opera or Louvre area. The demonstrators have chanted anti-capitalist slogans while the violent ones have caused significant material damage.
The leader of La France Insoumisa, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, has called for the “immediate cessation of the arrests”. “Tonight, dozens of peaceful people were violently and arbitrarily detained. Among them Emma Fourreau, co-responsible for Jóvenes Insumisas, and Laurent Abrahams, activist with La Francia Insumisa. We demand the immediate end of the arrests and the release of the prisoners! !” Mélenchon posted on Twitter.
“Macron and his government will never have enough police cells to stop the just anger of an entire people!” added Mathilde Panot, a deputy for La Francia Insumisa.
PROTESTS IN OTHER CITIES
The mobilizations have been reproduced in many other French cities. In Marseille, a hundred demonstrators have tried to storm the Bouches-du-Rhône prefecture, reports ‘Le Figaro’, citing police sources. The Police intervened to arrest them and the situation is now calm.
In Toulouse the situation is tense, with protesters burning garbage cans, while in Bordeaux the Police have used tear gas to disperse the crowd.
In Bordeaux and Lille the Police have also intervened with tear gas and other means of riot control to disperse the protest, while in Montpellier barricades have been erected in the vicinity of the prefecture.
In Nancy, a hundred have destroyed street furniture, according to the Alsace media. Dumpsters have been overturned. Also in Rennes, Dijon and Strasbourg there have been protests.
