A protester in Nantes banging on a frying pan. SEBASTIEN SALOM-GOMIS / AFP
Protesters circulated through the city center banging on pots and pans to show their displeasure. No overflow was reported.
A demonstration gathered between 1,700 people, according to the prefecture, and 2,000 people, according to the unions, in Nantes on Tuesday evening, where opponents of the pension reform had made an appointment for a concert of pans.
At the call of the FSU, Solidaires and the CGT, the demonstrators strolled through the city center making noise with the pots, pans and lids they had brought.
An event without incident
The demonstration took place in calm, without any clash with the police, who stood at a distance from the passage of the procession in the adjacent streets. “Neither faction nor factious, we are the people“, or “When it’s no, it’s no, Macronie, rapist state“, could be read on placards in the crowd, while a man denounced the microphonegovernment pansby listing the names of relatives of Emmanuel Macron involved in cases, such as his former adviser Thierry Solère, indicted for a dozen financial offenses. “It was an organic demonstration, a demonstration without tear gas“, concluded a woman when the demonstrators began to disperse in front of the castle of the Dukes of Brittany, after marching for two hours.
In Rennes, a torchlight procession was announced for Tuesday evening. But in the end, around 250 people marched peacefully, without torches, on the route that has become customary for demonstrations in recent years.