Blocked by demonstrators early this Thursday morning, the Montauban bus depot was released after heavy intervention by the police. Hand-held tear gas was used and a protester was arrested. In reprisal, around 50 people demonstrated outside the police station to demand his release.
Actions continue for unions opposed to the pension reform. Early this Thursday morning, they blocked the Montauban city bus depot. Accompanied by yellow vests and ordinary citizens, they were close to a hundred to meet at 6 a.m. in front of the entrance to the Société Economie Mixte des Transports Montalbanais (S.E.M.T.M), Impasse d’Athènes. A small barricade of pallets was erected, blocking 17 buses.
“After an attempt at negotiation by the director of SEMTM, the prefecture ordered the blockage to be removed,” said Commissioner Allegri, who noted that “college and high school students were going to wait in the cold. After the usual summons, around fifteen police intervened to dislodge the demonstrators. Faced with the “strong resistance encountered, hand tear gas was used”, specifies the Commissioner. An action deemed “disproportionate and scandalous” by Christophe Couderc, secretary general of CGT 82, there were no insults or provocations they gassed us at point blank range. At around 8 am, the operation was over and the buses were able to take their service an hour late.
Protestor arrested and injured
During the intervention, “Fred”, a protester, a former professor from Valence d’Agen, was arrested for participating in a crowd after drowsiness and willful violence against a person holding public authority for having attempted to remove the shield. of a policeman. Injured in the brow bone during his grounding, he was transferred to Montauban hospital before he was taken into police custody.
In retaliation, around 50 people started a demonstration outside the police station to demand the release of their colleague.
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