It is an “unprecedented security device” which will be deployed, Tuesday, March 28, for the new day of mobilization against the pension reform.
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Un “unprecedented security system” will be deployed on Tuesday, March 28, 2023, for the tenth day of inter-union mobilization against the pension reform. Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior, announced that “13,000 police and gendarmes” will be mobilized, “including 5,500 in Paris”.
During a press conference, he called “in this period of violence […] solemnly each and everyone in peace “and mentioned the possible arrival in Paris on Tuesday of” more than 1,000 radical elements, some of whom came from abroad and others were present in Sainte-Soline this weekend “. He added that these people “from the ultra-left and the far left” could also “carry out actions in Lyon, Rennes, Nantes, Dijon and Bordeaux”, cities where the demonstrations were punctuated last Thursday with numerous violence. . He also deplored that these demonstrators “are trying to take the union processions hostage. They come to break, to kill police and gendarmes […] to destabilize the institutions and put France on fire and blood”, in reference to the reproaches addressed, by Emmanuel Macron, to La France insoumise.
To justify this unprecedented device, Gérald Darmanin affirmed that his services anticipated for Tuesday “very significant risks to public order” and mentioned a “context of ultra-violence”.