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The Saint-Nazaire bridge, which suffered "significant damage" on Wednesday during an occupation by demonstrators protesting against the pension reform, will remain closed "until further notice", the time to carry out checks security, announced the Loire-Atlantique department. "Two gantries collapsed after being set on fire and multiple security damage identified: the Saint-Nazaire bridge suffered significant voluntary damage on Wednesday which prevents its reopening to traffic", deplores its manager in a press release
A 30-year-old man was sentenced on Wednesday by the Besançon court to 3 years in prison for beating a police officer on the head with a skateboard, on the sidelines of a demonstration against pension reform. The man, judged in immediate appearance, was imprisoned at the end of the hearing. He was also sentenced to a 5-year ban from appearing in Franche-Comté, his lawyer, Me Julien Vernet, told AFP.
Emmanuel Macron's intervention was "useful", estimated on LCI the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt. "There will be a before and an after, the goal is not to erase everything," he added. “There is strong disagreement over age, but does that mean there are no possible topics for discussion with the unions? I do not believe that. We have to redo things little by little. »
Several universities are blocked by students. On the Lyon 2 University Bron site, the faculty management announced that no activity would take place this Wednesday. In Saint-Etienne, the blocking of the university, which started on Monday at the call of the student union OSE (Student Solidarity Organization) was extended on Wednesday. Sixty students on strike block access to four sites. A site of the university in Roubaix (Nord) is blocked, as well as the site of Sciences Po Lille.
According to the CGT, the gas operators at the Dunkirk terminal (North) decided to close the valves on Thursday and reduce the flow to the technical minimum for 24 hours before a general meeting on Friday morning "to see how they plan to continue the action". In gas depots, such as that of Gournay-sur-Aronde (Oise), employees evoke the idea of "drying the network", an action for the moment ruled out because a return to service takes months.
After his intervention in the television news of TF1 and France 2, Emmanuel Macron published a tweet this Wednesday evening, where he claims to be "at work to do what we must do". "I love our country and our compatriots (...) There are difficult times that we have to face. I am sure that we will be able to unite, to come together for the future of the country. I'm convinced ".
Many demonstrators gathered in Montpellier, Lille and Strasbourg this Wednesday evening to protest against the pension reform. Overflows took place in Bordeaux between police and protesters.
At the national level, the situation is deteriorating slightly, with 14.30% of service stations in short supply of at least one type of fuel against 12% on Tuesday, and 7.13% are dry, against 6% on Tuesday. In the South-East, the Alpes-Maritimes have announced a rationing of the quantities of fuel available at the pump, as previously Gard, Vaucluse, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence or Var.
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The strike of Parisian garbage collectors started on March 6 against the pension reform is renewed until Monday, confirmed Wednesday to Agence France-Presse the leaders of the CGT who block access to the incineration plant of Ivry-sur-Seine. After more than two weeks of strike, the blocking of the three incineration sites surrounding Paris and dumpster depots has caused the accumulation of garbage in the streets of the capital. On Wednesday, according to the town hall, 9,500 tons were strewn on the sidewalks, an estimate slightly increasing for the first time since the start of the requisitions decided on Thursday by the police headquarters.
A few demonstrators began to gather at Place de Stalingrad in Paris.
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According to her entourage, Elisabeth Borne will consult her ministers next week as well as the political forces, responding to the call of President Emmanuel Macron who asked her to "expand the majority" on several subjects. The Prime Minister "will conduct consultations with political forces" to "define the parliamentary calendar for the coming months and identify text-by-text majorities", the same source told AFP. But no timetable is yet defined at this stage.
In an open letter relayed by Liberation, several figures of French culture (Juliette Binoche, Laure Calamy, Bruno Solo...) called on Emmanuel Macron to backtrack on the pension reform which they consider "unfair, inefficient, touching harsher the most precarious and women, rejected by the vast majority of the population, and even a minority in the National Assembly". "It is high time to make our voices heard, because cinema, theater, culture, if they sometimes carry dreams and escape, are above all works that speak of our world", can we also read in this letter co-written by nearly 300 personalities. The complete letter
Invited to the antenna of RTL this Wednesday, the boss of the CGT reacted to the interview with Emmanuel Macron who "did not understand the anger at all", according to him. “This intervention will stir up anger. He did not take into account our alert or anger,” he said.
Several associations fighting against precariousness were indignant on Wednesday at President Macron's remarks that the "feeling of injustice" in France was partly fueled by the fact that some "never work". These declarations were strongly criticized by several associations fighting against poverty and helping the most precarious. The National Movement of the Unemployed and Precarious (MNCP) saw in it "contempt, arrogance, ego. "For the Alerte collective, which brings together 34 associations fighting against poverty, "bringing together and appeasing, this cannot be by opposing those who work and those who are excluded from employment". "We plead for a right to work but also for a dignified income for all", added this collective on Twitter.
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