In the capital, the CGT claims 50,000 demonstrators on May 1.
Elsewhere in France, demonstrations brought together 1,900 people in Bordeaux, 3,600 in Marseille, 3,500 in Toulouse, 4,000 in Lyon, 1,500 in Strasbourg or Saint-Etienne, 2,000 in Lille according to police figures. A total of 255 assembly points were planned in the country, according to the CGT.
In Rennes, the demonstration organized in the morning (1,650 people according to the prefecture) took place in peace, but several hundred ultra-left activists played for two hours at cat and mouse with the forces of the order, who used tear gas and a water cannon. Garbage fires were observed. Degradations also in Nantes, where the police intervened to disperse ultra-left militants, according to the prefecture.
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