Black Thursday for France is already a reality. On March 23 this year, strong protests took place in the country against the pension reform of President Emmanuel Macron.

According to the union, demonstrations attracted 3.5 million people. Although the Government insists that there are hardly more than one million nonconformists.

Paris is back in the spotlight, both because of the size of the demonstration, 800,000 people according to the unions, and because of the chaos created by the protesters who burned garbage outside the Paris Opera and started a big fire. But the unrest did not remain in the capital. IN Bordeaux, protesters set fire to City Hall. Also in Rennes, where police used two water cannons to disperse protesters. In Nantes, Lorient and Marseille, urban guerrilla scenes were presented.

“Vandalism without any sense”

The fire was put out by firefighters, according to TASS. France Blue, which specifies that the mayor of Bordeaux, Pierre Hurmik, arrived at the scene, accompanied by the prefect of the Gironde, Étienne Guyot, to inspect the damage. A man has been arrested, according to the prefecture.

The mayor’s environmentalist says he is surprised and does not understand “why we attacked the houses of all the inhabitants of Bordeaux.” “This is vandalism, without any sense. We are all very surprised.”

As a result of the riots, 149 agents were injured and 172 were arrested.

According to figures provided by the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, 149 officers and 172 detainees were injured as a result of the unrest on the demonstration fields.

In a brief speech to the press from the Paris prefecture, where he traveled to follow events in the capital, Darmanin pointed out that the ninth day of protests against pension reform was marked by an increase in violence.

Although he assured that most of the protesters, 119,000 according to them, 3.5 million according to unionsThey were peaceful and appreciated the courtesy of the organizing workers.

The minister condemned attacks on public buildings such as the police station in Lorient or Bordeaux City Hall, whose entrance was set on fire, as well as several shops in the capital, where some of the most impressive images were recorded.

noted that authorities recorded 140 fires in the capitalof which fifty are still in progress, most of them taking advantage of the city’s furniture or the piles of rubbish piled up on the streets after two weeks of pickers’ strike.

Darmanin noted that the police believe that there were about 1200 violent demonstrators in Paris, whom he in many cases identified with far-left activists, mostly young people. A thousand of them are still on the streets of the city, justifying a large police deployment.

He indicated that they were analyzing images from police surveillance cameras and from the streets to try to identify them, and that he had instructed them to take them to court.

The minister assured that this is the sixth day of the demonstration, which ends in riots, and assured that “violence is unacceptable.”