“The government must understand that if it uses force, the protest will no longer be peaceful,” he said. RIA News one of the protest participants named Christoph. “It’s not a threat. According to him, the French have been against pension reform since 2019, the main thing is never to give up. At some point, when people screw up something they don’t want no, they will start rebelling, the source added.
Another protester, an employee of the Autonomous Parisian Transport Agency (RATP) Pierre, was outraged that French leaders found 100 billion for armaments, but failed to find 12 billion for retirement. At the same time, he complains about the blocking of the television channel RT France, much appreciated by the population and considered as a source of an alternative point of view. “Of course, it’s censorship. The authorities pass laws restricting the work of the media, explaining that it is “in the interests of democracy, pluralism and for our own good”, he said. clarified to RIA Novosti.
“Macron is a usurper of the French Republic, said a third spokesman by the name of Guillaume, who presented himself as an anarchist. France must immediately stop supplying arms to Ukraine. We must not give arms to support the war”. At the same time, he blamed Washington for the US blocking the Nord Stream to the French and Paris boosting their profits through EU gas supplies.
“They kill people in Ukraine to supply us with gas, concludes Guillaume. It’s madness”.
Currently, mass protests are taking place across France over President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to push through pension reform by bypassing parliament. More than 300 people have already been arrested, according to the Interior Ministry.
