“Violent demonstrations”: May 1 included in the commission of inquiry


In addition to Sainte-Soline, the future commission of inquiry should examine the violence during the demonstrations against the pension reform.





By BL with AFP

At the end of March, the demonstration, however prohibited in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres), ended in incredible violence.
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Ihe powers of the future commission extended. During a vote in committee, Wednesday, May 3, the deputies extended the period of study on the “violent illegal demonstrations” that a future parliamentary commission of inquiry must deal with. According to this vote, the violence during the mobilization of the 1er may also be affected.

The National Assembly must approve the launch of this commission of inquiry on May 10, which was started by the deputies Renaissance and Horizons after the series of demonstrations against the pension reform and that against the mega-basins in Sainte-Soline (Two -Sevres). Its field of investigation initially extended from March 16, the day of the triggering of the constitutional weapon of 49.3 to pass the pension reform, to April 4, the date of the filing of the request.

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A stormy meeting in committee

On Wednesday, the Law Commission thus postponed the date to May 3. It is a question of studying “the structuring, the financing, the means and the modalities of action of the small groups responsible for violence during the demonstrations” over the period, as well as “the progress of these demonstrations.

A total of 540 people were arrested in France, including 305 in Paris, during the demonstrations on 1er May, according to the Interior Ministry. 406 police and gendarmes and 61 demonstrators were injured.

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The meeting of deputies on Wednesday morning was itself stormy, the elected LFI, PCF and EELV accusing the majority of pouring into “arbitrariness” and “serving the soup to the RN”. The rapporteur Florent Boudié (Renaissance) defended himself, arguing that his text did not refer to any political or union formation, and saying his fed up with “anathemas”.




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