On Thursday, over 250 demonstrations throughout the country take place on the appeal of the largest French trade unions. The authorities expected about 800,000 people.
According to the Elabe center poll for BFMTV 56 percent The French express support or sympathy for strike actions. It is slightly less than in 2023, when in France a protest was protested against increasing the retirement age. At that time, the degree of acceptance was 60-62 percent. In turn, 25 percent respondents said in the Elabe poll that they did not support Thursday mobilization. 18 percent However, she decided that she was indifferent to them.
There were recordings on the network, which shows how the protesters entered the Ministry of Economy and Finance in Paris.
The demonstrators before entering the courtyard unsuccessfully tried to stop the police.
Protests in France. The police thwarted blocking attempts
The Interior Minister of France Bruno Retailleau reported that in the morning the police thwarted the attempts to block in the Paris region, as well as an attempt to sabotage at the waterworks in the Morbihan department in Brittany. These actions occurred before the strikes and demonstrations announced on that day.
Retailleau explained that at Paris attempts were made to block the bus depot and there were also several other locks, already liquidated. He assured that the police would be “tenacious” in such interventions.
