More than 6,500 people paraded between Garibaldi and Place Jean-Macé according to the prefecture, more than 10,000 according to the unions. The procession was to go through the Guillotière then on the quays of the Rhône.
And if the traditional slogans targeting the government of François Bayrou punctuated the course supervised by 400 staff of the national police including the CRS83 and a drone in support, the black blocks were also very numerous this Thursday.
Dozens of individuals dressed in black have played the game of the cat and the mouse with the police.
At the start of the demonstration, they formed the head of the procession, strongly slowing down the rest of the parade. Quickly, the CRS charged to disperse them, allowing the inter -union to resume leadership.
But on several occasions of projectile jets took place, while the authorities used tear gas.
The peak of tensions was reached at the corner of the Quai Claude Bernard and avenue Berthelot. The antifas and the black blocks attacked the headquarters of the 6th real estate real estate promoter, whose entry doors were forced with large kicks. To prevent demonstrators from entering and ransacking everything, the quay was flooded with tear gas.
Note the arrests of two thugs who attacked the 6th Sense headquarters and urban furniture, and an individual before the start of the May 1 event. He was wearing a knife.
Three members of the police were injured.
Tags calling for the murder of police officers were made. The Rhône prefect announces to condemn them “with the greatest firmness” and to have contacted the city of Lyon and the Lyon 2 University to have them erased quickly.
Among the local personalities represented, the rebellious deputies of the Rhône Gabriel Amard or Anaïs Belouassa Cherifi were present, in particular to support their peer Raphaël Arnault, who came to challenge Bruno Retailleau and his procedure of dissolution against the young guard of which he was the leader in Lyon before becoming deputy for Avignon.
