The showdown continues. Tenth day of inter-union demonstration this Tuesday, five days after a
massive mobilization in the streets of all France against pension reform. Demonstrations marked by numerous overflows. This Tuesday, the disruptions remain significant in transport in particular. Train traffic is still limited with three out of five TGVs and one out of two TERs on average, according to SNCF. Difficulties also in Ile-de-France transport, where the RATP has reduced traffic on most metro and RER lines. On the roads, traffic is disrupted by the lack of gasoline: 15% of service stations are on Tuesday short of at least one fuel, due to the shutdown of five of the country’s seven refineries, on strike. Between 650,000 and 900,000 demonstrators are expected throughout France. 200 demonstrations and gatherings are organized throughout France.
11:20 a.m. – 8.37% of teachers on strike, according to the Ministry of Education
According to the Ministry of Education 8.37% of teachers are on strike on Tuesday. This is much less than the 30% announced by the Snuipp-FSU, the leading union in nursery and elementary schools.
11 a.m. – Processions set off all over France
Demonstrations started this Tuesday morning everywhere in France. This is particularly the case in Marseille or Clermont Ferrand. On March 23, more than 280,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of Marseille, according to the unions.
10 a.m. – The Louvre Museum closed
Due to an interprofessional social movement,
the Louvre museum will remain closed this Tuesday. Yesterday a demonstration of the unions of museums and national domains took place in the museum. Disturbances are also expected in other cultural places such as the Eiffel Tower.
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9:30 a.m. – In Nice or Paris, universities and 500 high schools blocked
The mobilization of young people is illustrated this Tuesday through the blockages of many universities. This is particularly the case in Nice, Paris or Lille. Lille where the scientific campus is closed “as a security measure”, according to the administration, “blocked” according to the Student Union Federation and South. Sciences Po Lille was also closed on Tuesday.
Many high school students also got involved. The FIDL high school student union announces in a press release that “more than 500 high schools [sont] blocked” in France on Tuesday. During the last mobilization on March 23, at the same time, the Independent and Democratic High School Federation announced that more than 400 high schools were blocked. “High school students are wearing a new face to the movement against pension reform”says FIDL. “It’s a historic mobilization that exceeds all our estimates”adds the high school student union.
9 a.m. – Blockades in progress in Rennes, Toulouse or Lille
Train traffic between Rennes and Saint-Brieuc is interrupted due to protesters on the tracks, said the prefect of Brittany and Ille-et-Vilaine, shortly after 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday on Twitter. In Rennes, a fire was in progress Porte de Lorient. Traffic is severely disrupted on the ring road, including filter dams and pallet fires in places. It was completely blocked in both directions in the morning, reports a journalist from France Bleu Armorique present on the spot.
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In Nantes, traffic was also extremely disrupted due to protest actions on the ring road with “several kilometers of traffic jams observed on both sides” and a “trend to worsen”, according to Bison Futé.
According to France Bleu, other blockages are underway in Cher or in the North, near Lille. In the Creuse, in Guéret, demonstrators disrupt the movement of trains. In Toulouse, the Météo France site is blocked.
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8:20 a.m. – Berger calls for “mediation”
The number one of the CFDT Laurent Berger
asked the executive on France Inter on Tuesday to set up a “mediation” For “find a way out” to the social crisis.
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7:50 am – “Rise in volume and radicality” of black blocks says Nuñez
“As usual, we expect the presence of a black bloc” in the Parisian procession,
says Laurent Nuñez, prefect of police of Paris, on France Inter. He evokes a “rise in volume of this black bloc, a rise in radicality”. 13,000 police and gendarmes including 5,500 in Paris are mobilized, device “unpublished”according to the Minister of the Interior.
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