Divergent Figures: Lyon Protest on March 28 Draws 12,500 by Prefecture Count, While Unions Report 30,000 Demonstrators

This live dedicated to the tenth day of mobilization against the pension reform in Lyon is now over.

Between 12,500 and 30,000 people demonstrated in the streets of Lyon, marking a lower mobilization compared to the previous week.

Fifteen people were arrested today on the sidelines of the Lyon demonstration. Tensions erupted at the end of the mobilization when a wild procession unfolded in the streets of the city center.

Several businesses were degraded and the police were targeted by mortar fire, particularly at Place Bellecour.

35 national police officers were slightly injured according to the Rhône prefecture.

A dozen people were arrested on the sidelines of the Lyon demonstration, according to the Rhône prefecture.

Tensions erupted at the end of the rally this afternoon with in particular downgrades of several banks. Clashes also broke out between the police and the demonstrators.

Place Bellecour is now almost empty. The police disperse the last demonstrators. Calls for wild demonstrations are already circulating on social networks.

Traffic is suspended until further notice in the area of ​​the Dr. Gailleton wharf. Demonstrators dropped pieces of the wall surrounding the platform onto the tracks.

The end of the mobilization in Lyon was the scene of several tensions between demonstrations and the police. Five people were arrested.

12,500 demonstrators marched in Lyon according to the prefecture on Tuesday, 30,000 demonstrators according to the unions.

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A garbage fire is underway in front of the Gibert Joseph sign on quai Gailleton.

The thugs attacked the walls of the Gailleton wharf expressway. Traffic is blocked.

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The police are targeted by mortar fire by the thugs, and retaliate by using their water-thrower truck to repel the thugs, as they approach Place Bellecour.

The violent group advances very quickly at the beginning of the procession, and arrives rue de la Barre, to reach Place Bellecour.

Rue de la Barre is blocked by the police, with the presence of the water truck.

Five people were arrested, on the sidelines of the Lyon procession, enamelled by tensions, announced the Rhône prefecture to BFM Lyon.

The Rhône prefecture told BFM Lyon that the violent group at the head of the procession in Lyon is made up of “1000 people”.

“Violent individuals” “commit damage to shops on rue Vendôme”, warns the Rhône prefecture.

“The police make proportionate use of means to repel and disperse violent individuals who throw projectiles at them and commit damage to businesses on rue Vendôme”, details the prefecture.

Damage was committed in Lyon, on the sidelines of the procession. A BNP Paribas agency, at the corner of Cours Gambetta and Rue Sébastien Gryphe, was targeted, as well as the Attijariwafa Bank and a bus shelter.

The police have already responded with tear gas to disperse the violent group, upstream of the procession.

7.58% of teachers went on strike this morning in the Academy of Lyon. 6.48% went on strike in the first degree, 9.21% in the second. participation rises to 11.34% in colleges, 6.82% in general and technological high schools and 8.08%.

Five high schools were affected this morning: the Alexandre Lacassagne high school, the Ampère high school, the Saint-Just high school, the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Edouard Herriot school complex.

“A risk group before the institutional procession” is present in the Lyon demonstration, the Rhône prefecture told BFM Lyon.

No breakage is to be deplored for the time being.

The procession set off in Lyon, around 1:30 p.m., for this tenth day of mobilization against the pension reform.

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC) is asking airlines to revise their flight schedules downwards this Thursday and Friday.

For Friday, the DGAC has requested the cancellation of 20% of flights, or one in four, at Lyon Saint-Exupéry airport.

“The DGAC invites passengers who can to postpone their trip and to inquire with their airline to find out the status of their flight”, specifies the management in a press release.

Several CGT demonstrators are blocking the entrance to the Bugey nuclear power plant in Saint-Vulbas (Ain), the union announced on Twitter.

The demonstrators took place in front of the entrance to the building around 7 a.m.

Railway workers blocked the tracks at the station in Saint-Etienne to prevent trains from leaving for Lyon on Tuesday morning, SNCF said on Twitter.

Traffic resumed around 8:30 a.m. after the protesters were evacuated.

Even if “traffic is fluid in the rest of the region”, some delays persist in the morning.

About fifteen students from Lyon compete in front of the doors of Lyon 3 University in the capital of Gaul, learned BFM Lyon from UNEF Lyon.

The fight took place between “students from the far-right La Cocarde movement”, according to the UNEF, and students who were there to block the establishment.

Classes are disrupted in Lyon this Tuesday as the two universities of Lyon 2 and Lyon 3 face blockages on several campuses.

“No activity can take place there today, Tuesday March 28,” said Lyon 2 University.

On the side of Lyon 3, the buildings are also blocked by the demonstrators, according to several testimonies on social networks.

The strike of the day has little impact on the circulation of public transport in Lyon. The TCL announce a “very slightly disturbed” traffic.

Lines T2, T3 and T4 are affected. They offer a tram every 7 to 9 minutes. The others are driving normally. Ditto for metros and funiculars.

With regard to buses, the frequency is reduced on certain lines.

During a press conference held yesterday, Gérald Darmanin indicated that “radical elements” could disrupt the Lyon demonstration.

Thursday, 1,000 so-called “very hostile” individuals had joined a pre-procession and had committed damage, according to the prefecture.

A total of eleven people were arrested. Three police officers were injured.

As usual, the event will start from the Manufacture des tabacs. Appointment was given by the unions at 1 p.m. The procession will take the direction of Place Bellecour.

Last Thursday, during the 9th episode, 55,000 people took to the streets, according to the unions. A total never reached before.

According to the prefecture, the total number of demonstrators is more like 22,000 people.

Hello and welcome to this live dedicated to the 10th day of mobilization against pension reform in Lyon and, more broadly, in the Rhône.