157,000 demonstrators throughout France according to the police, 300,000 according to the CGT; The Parisian parade marked by clashes around a PS stand

While unemployment continues its rise, threats to employment fed on Thursday 1^is May, the mobilization of traditional union processions also resonated for fears for peace and stability in the world. According to police, the demonstrations brought together 157,000 people, including 32,000 in Paris – a net participation in relation to 2024, when 121,000 people had been identified. The CGT has counted 300,000 people, including 100,000 in Paris.

In the capital, the demonstration set off at 2 p.m. from Place d’Italie to Place de la Nation. The Paris parade was marked by clashes around a stand of the Socialist Party (PS). According to an AFP journalist, demonstrators dressed in black, some wearing antifa flags, strongly challenged and jostled elected officials and PS activists who had a stand on the journey of the demonstration. “Everyone hates the PS”chanted these demonstrators hostile to the socialist presence in a tense atmosphere.

The socialist MEP Chloé Ridel said on X that the socialists have ” was insulted and then attacked by black blocks: they torn off our flags and banners, kicked, punches, launched firecrackers ”she said, writing not having “Words strong enough to condemn hatred and violence we faced”. “For me, it was black blocks and antifas”also estimated the deputy (PS) Jérôme Guedj, specifying: “These people turned a lot towards me to insult me. »» Jérôme Guedj, who had to leave a rally on Sunday against Islamophobia after having suffered invectives with anti -Semitic hints, this time had to be dismissed from the procession, according to television images.

“Complaints are underway”, warned Olivier Faure, the first secretary of the PS. “We will not let anything. We will never accept the violence of fanatics which do not serve any cause and destroy collective fights ”wrote on X the first secretary of the PS, thanking “The order service and the activists who intervened with courage to avoid the worst”.

« The police intervened to secure the premises and carry out arrests », Himself said the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, also on X. “We will not back down to political violence that the far left tries to install in our country”he added. In the early evening, Mr. Retailleau qualified the facts “Absolutely lamentable” and of“Unacceptable”. « I want to denounce those who have this kind of violent practices and who target perfectly democratic parties ”he said on BFM-TV.

Asked about LCI, the secretary general of the CGT, Sophie Binet, replied that “These are violence that are not welcome in these processions”. According to a provisional assessment of the prefecture, 29 people were arrested at the end of the afternoon on Thursday.

15 arrests in Nantes

In the other processions, the demonstrators were between 15,000, according to the CGT, and 3,600, according to the prefecture, in Marseille. They were also between 6,500, according to the prefecture, and 10,000 according to the organizers, in Toulouse, 2,900 in Strasbourg, 1,800 in Brest and 2,350 in Bordeaux, according to the prefectures, and 2,200 in Nancy.

In the port city of Dunkirk, several hundred people gathered in the morning at the call of the CGT, to protest against the deletion plan of around 600 posts announced by ArcelorMittal. Several leftist political leaders, including the socialist Olivier Faure, the various left deputy François Ruffin, the National Secretary of Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, or the President La France Insoumise (LFI) of the Committee on Economic Affairs, Aurélie found, were present alongside the demonstrators.

In Nantes, where 5,000 people gathered according to the authorities, clashes occurred between demonstrators and the police who used water cannons. The Loire-Atlantique prefecture has announced that “Protesters have degraded the prefecture and thrown projectiles as well as mortars against the police”adding that fifteen people had been arrested.

This traditional meeting was held when the government has supported a bill aimed at authorizing certain professions to make employees work on 1^is-Mai, the only public holiday and unemployed in France. “There are people who want to work in the country and when they are on a voluntary basis, with a doubling of salary, they must be able to do it”judged the Minister of Labor on Thursday, Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet on RTL. It must be“We leave [la loi] as it is “claimed the secretary general of the CFDT, Marylise Léon, on TF1/LCI.