MAY 1, 2024. The traditional May 1 demonstrations are taking place across France this Wednesday. A confidential intelligence memo reportedly highlighted a "tense geopolitical context", but a limited risk of overflows…
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Day of demonstrations this Monday, May 1, 2024 in France. For the traditional Labor Day, the unions called for support. with one voice & parade in all the cities. Nearly 260 processions are expected.
May 1st promises to be calmer this year than last year, when the parades arrived after the weekend. s the entry into force of the highly contested pension reform. According to the information, it “does not present any proven risk” as such. in matters of public order.
The authorities nevertheless planned yesterday for 400 to 400% of deaths. 800 "éelements risk" in processions numbering 120,000 à 150,000 people throughout France and a few dozen in the demonstration Paris.
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09:28 – Between 120,000 and 150,000 demonstrators expected throughout France
A territorial intelligence memo estimates that the French will be between 120,000 and 150,000 à demonstrate today.
In Paris, an appointment was made. given &agrav; 2 p.m. this Wednesday May 1st at Place de la République and the demonstration route has been completed. directed towards Place de la Nation passing Boulevard Voltaire. CGT, CFDT, Unsa, FSU and Solidaires are à the origin of the procession which was waiting yesterday for between 15,000 and 30,000 people according to a police source. The fear of seeing a few hundred radical demonstrators – 400 à 800 "éelements risk" – was also palpable during the preparations.
Ahead of the May 1 demonstration, the police headquarters announced a restricted traffic system, between the Places de la République, de la Bastille and de la Nation , boulevards du Temple, des Filles du Calvaire, Beaumarchais, Diderot, rue de Lyon and avenue Daumesnil. The prefecture strongly recommended motorists to widely bypass the area for the duration of the event, from 10 a.m. Wednesday morning.< /p>
A little less than 260 demonstrations took place. scheduled in France for May 1, 2024. Fashion shows have been held in France for May 1, 2024. planned in all major cities, but not only. Here is the list of the main processions listed by the CFDT:
Abbeville: 10:30 a.m., Place du Pilori
Ajaccio: 2:00 p.m. in front of the SNCF station.
Agen: 10:00 a.m., Kiosque du Gravier
Aix en Provence: 10:30 a.m., Fontaine de la Rotonde
Albi: 10:00 a.m., Place du Vigan
Alençon: 11:00 a.m., Prefecture
Alès: 10:30 a.m., Town Hall
Amiens: 10:00 a.m., Grilles de la Hotoie
Angers: 10:30 a.m. Place de la Bourse du Travail
Angoulême: 10:30 a.m., Town Hall
Annecy: 9:30 a.m. à the Labor Exchange
Antibes: 10:00 a.m., Place De Gaulle
Arles: 10:30 a.m., Place de la République
Auch: 11:00 a.m., Quai Lissagaray
Aurillac: 10:00 a.m., before the Court
Auxerre: 10:30 a.m., Maison des Syndicats
Avignon: 10:00 a.m. Jean Jaurès course
Bar-le-Duc: 10:30 a.m., SNCF station /Place de la République
Bastia: 10:00 a.m. Place d’Armes
Bayonne: 11:00 a.m. Place Sainte-Ursule
Beauvais: 10:30 a.m. Place Jeanne Hachette
Belfort: 10:00 a.m., Maison du Peuple
Bergerac: 10:30 a.m., Palais de Justice
Besançon: 10:00 a.m. Human Rights Esplanade
Béziers: 11:00 a.m. à the Labor Exchange
Blois: 10:30 a.m., Prefecture
Bordeaux: 10:00 a.m. from Place de la Bourse à Victory Square
Bourg-en-Bresse: 10:30 a.m., Champ de Foire
Bourges: 10:30 a.m. Place Malus
Brest: 11:00 a.m., Place de la Liberté
Brive-la-Gaillarde: 10:30 a.m., Place du 14 Juillet
Caen: 10:30 a.m. Place Saint-Pierre
Cahors: 11:00 a.m., Place Mitterrand
Calais: 10:00 a.m., Bourse du Travail
Cannes: 10:30 a.m., Gare
Carcassonne: 2:00 p.m., Place Carnot
Carmaux: 11:00 a.m., Statue Jaurès
Chalons-en-Champagne: 10:00 a.m., Maison des Syndicats
Chalon-sur-Saône: 10:00 a.m., Place de Beaune
Chambéry: 10:00 a.m., La Sasson
Charleville-Mézières: 10:30 a.m., Parvis de la Gare
Chartres: 10:30 a.m., Prefecture
Châteaubriant: 10:30 a.m., Hôtel de Ville
Châteauroux: 10:00 a.m., Place de la République
Chaumont: 11:00 a.m., Square Boulingrin
Cherbourg-en-Cotentin: 10:30 a.m. Place de la Mairie
Cholet: 10:30 a.m. Place Travot
Clermont-Ferrand: 10:00 a.m., Place Delille
Dax: 10:00 a.m., Parc des Arènes
Dieppe: 11:00 a.m., Parvis Mairie
Dijon: 10:00 a.m. Place Wilson
Dole: 10:30 a.m., Avenue de L’Ahr
Draguignan: 10:30 a.m., Under Prefecture
Dunkirk: 10:00 a.m. Room of the Future
Épernay: 10:00 a.m., Place Carnot
Épinal: 10:00 a.m., Bourse du Travail
Évreux: 10:30 a.m., Place Armand Mandle
Figeac: 11:00 a.m., Jardin de l’Hôpital
Gap: 10:00 a.m., Prefecture
Guéret: 11:00 a.m., Place Bonnyaud
Grasse: 10:30 a.m., Jardins des Plantes
Grenoble: 10:00 a.m. from the SNCF station
Guingamp: 10:30 a.m., Champ du Roy car park
Issoudun: 10:00 a.m., Congress Center
Le Puy-en-Velay: 10:30 a.m., Place Cadelade
La Roche-sur-Yon: 10:30 a.m. Place Napoléon
La Rochelle: 10:00 a.m. Place de l’Hôtel de Ville
Laval: 10:00 a.m. Human Rights Square
Le Havre: 10:30 a.m. at Cercle Franklin, Maison des Syndicats, Cours République
Le Mans: 10:00 a.m. Parc du Gué-Maulny
Lille: 10:00 a.m. Porte des Postes, on Place Barthélémy Dorez
Limoges: 10:30 a.m., Carrefour Tourny
Lisieux: 10:30 a.m., Place François Mitterrand
Lons-le-Saunier: 10:30 a.m., Place de la Liberté
Lure: 10:30 a.m., Esplanade Charles De Gaulle
Lyon: 10:30 a.m. from Métro Garibaldi, towards Place Bellecour
Mâcon: 10:30 a.m., Place des Cordelliers
Manosque: 10:00 a.m., Place Marcel Pagnol
Marseille: 10:00 a.m. in the Réformés district
Martigues: 10:30 a.m., Place Jean Jaurès
Meaux: 10:00 a.m., Town Hall
Mende: 10:30 a.m., Place Urbain V
Metz: 10:00 a.m., Place de la République
Millau: 10:30 a.m., Gare
Montauban: 10:00 a.m., in front of the Maison du Peuple
Montélimar: 11:00 a.m., Theater
Montluçon: 10:30 a.m., Place Piquand
Montpellier: 10:30 a.m., Place Albert 1er
Morlaix: 10:30 a.m., Place des Otages
Mulhouse: 10:00 a.m., Place de la Bourse
Muret: 10:00 a.m., Under Prefecture
Nancy: 10:30 a.m., Place Dombasle
Nantes: 10:30 a.m. from Place de Bretagne
Narbonne: 10:30 a.m. in front of Les Halles
Nevers: 11:00 a.m., Préfecture
Nice: 10:00 a.m. at the Théâtre de Verdure (Jardin Albert 1er)
N&imes: 10:30 a.m., Maison Carrée
Niort: 11:00 a.m., La Brèche
Orléans: 10:30 a.m., place de la Loire
Oyonnax: 10:30 a.m., Maison des Sociétés
Pamiers: 10:30 a.m., Place de la République
Paris: 2:00 p.m., departure from Place de la République until the Place de la Nation
Pau: 11:00 a.m. Place de Verdun
Périgueux: 10:30 a.m., Bourse du Travail
Perpignan: 10:30 a.m. Place de Catalogne
Poitiers: 10:30 a.m. Poitiers station
Privas: 10:30 a.m., Prefecture
Quimper: 11:00 a.m. Place de la Résistance
Reims: 10:00 a.m. à the Union House (15 Boulevard de la Paix)
Rennes: 10:30 a.m., departure from rue Jules Valles, Cleunay district
Roanne: 10:30 a.m., Bourse du Travail
Rodez: 10:30 a.m., Préfecture
Rouen: 10:00 a.m. Cours Clemenceau
Royan: 10:30 a.m., Place du Général De Gaulle
Saint-Brieuc: 11:00 a.m., Préfecture
Saint-Étienne: 10:00 a.m. the Labor Exchange
Saint-Gaudens: 10:30 a.m., Place Jaurès
Saint-Malo: 10:30 a.m. on the Esplanade Saint-Vincent
Saint-Nazaire: 11:00 a.m. Place de l’Amérique Latine
Saint-Omer: 9:30 a.m., Gare
Saint Quentin: 10:00 a.m., Place Gracchus Babeuf
Sète: 10:30 a.m., Place de la Mairie
Strasbourg: 10:00 a.m. from the Palais Universitaire de Strasbourg
Tarascon: 10:30 a.m., Beaucaire Town Hall
Tarbes: 10:00 a.m., Bourse du Travail
Toulon: 10:30 a.m. Labor Exchange
Toulouse: 10:00 a.m. departure from Esquirol
Tours: 10:00 a.m. Place des Libertés
Troyes: 10:00 a.m., Place Jean Jaurès
Tulle: 10:30 a.m., Albert Faucher
Ussel: 11:00 a.m., Place Verdun
Valencia: 10:00 a.m. à the Station
Valenciennes: 10:00 a.m., Place d’Armes
Vannes: 11:00 a.m. Esplanade du Port
Villefranche de Rouergue: 10:30 a.m., Town Hall
Villefranche-sur-Saône: 10:30 a.m., Place du Promenoir
This year, the May 1 protests were the subject of particular intelligence attention. According to Le Parisien, they estimated between 120,000 à 150,000 the number of participants in the processions this Wednesday, therefore 15,000 on Wednesday 30,000 à tread the pavement in the streets of the capital. A confidential note would have underlinedé a "tense geopolitical context", with the Olympic Games approaching, a conflict which continues in Ukraine, but also and above all the war in Ukraine. Gaza which begins à cause tensions in France.
If the pro-Palestinian student mobilization is in people's minds, forecasts have nevertheless announced a lesser and less violent mobilization than in 2023, the fight against pension reform being on the agenda. the time ' its loudest or almost. Some 400 à 800 "éelements " risk" They were still feared by the authorities at home. the day before the demonstrations, mainly linked to the ultra-left, while no ultra-right movement had yet been launched. detected. BFMTV assured Tuesday that intelligence anticipated "limited" abuses this year. and that "this event does not as such present a proven risk” in matters of public order.
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