A national appeal “against the power in place” was launched for act 44 of the yellow Vests in Nantes, this Saturday 14th September 2019.
Some 1800 people were marching Saturday 14th September 2019 in the centre of Nantes, according to the police, on the occasion of “act 44” movement of “yellow vests”, resulting in clashes between police and demonstrators.
Protesters, few of whom sported the fluorescent vest, drove from the affluent west of the city to the center, where the situation quickly escalated, resulting in projectile fire, to which the police responded with jet firing. tear gas grenades.
[ # Acte44 ] The procession of demonstrators is currently at the crossroads of trams at #Nantes .
The windows of several businesses degraded by #blackblocs .
Use of tear gas. pic.twitter.com/5Od1s4gDyy– National Police 44 (@ PoliceNat44) September 14, 2019
[ # Acte44 ] Manifestation #giletsYellow to #Nantes .
Using umbrellas by #BlackBlocs to change outfits.
The procession dispersed in scattered groups.
1 wounded constable. pic.twitter.com/SvfuTUWGD3– National Police 44 (@ PoliceNat44) September 14, 2019
Bins burned
“Justice for Steve, no forgetfulness or forgiveness”, “Less suits, more lobsters,” could be read on signs and signs protecting businesses.
In the procession, protesters chanted “Everyone hates the police”, or “The mutilated police, the murderous police”. Several shops and bus shelters were vandalized and garbage burned, AFP found .
[ # Acte44 ] Manifestation of the #giletsJaunes in the downtown of #Nantes .
The individual author of the degradations on 1 bus shelter @reseau_tan was spotted then stopped by the #polices of the ferry thanks to the video surveillance. pic.twitter.com/JaV91spz8Y– National Police 44 (@ PoliceNat44) September 14, 2019
Eighteen people were arrested before the departure of the event “facing the significant risk of violent actions in the city center,” police said on Twitter.
[ # Acte44 ] Faced with the significant risk of violent actions in the downtown area of #Nantes this afternoon, 18 arrests were made by our services during preventive controls.
Discovery of mortars rue de Gigant.
Seizure of 1 hundred umbrellas & 1 fire extinguisher. pic.twitter.com/BLrQRSWQw4– National Police 44 (@ PoliceNat44) September 14, 2019
Twenty-two molotov cocktails and ten mortars were also found near the assembly point, while a hundred umbrellas and a fire extinguisher were seized, police said.
[ # Acte44 ] 1 group of demonstrators still present at the crossroads of trams in the city center at #Nantes .
30 arrests.
For the moment, we deplore 2 gendarmes and 2 policemen wounded. pic.twitter.com/6qTkay0tDu– National Police 44 (@ PoliceNat44) September 14, 2019
Some 400 protesters in Lyon
Various groups of “yellow vests” called for a national rally in Nantes to revive the movement, almost a year after its debut, in a city marked by the death of Steve Maia Caniço. The 24-year-old host disappeared on the night of the Music Festival, after a controversial police intervention. His body was found five weeks later in the Loire.
Interior Minister Christophe Castaner announced Friday the transfer of the divisional commissioner for intervention, the report of the Inspectorate General of Administration (IGA) who considered that his decisions had “lack of discernment.”
The city is also marked by the “Rugy case”, the former minister of ecological transition pushed to resignation in mid-July after a series of revelations Mediapart .
In Lyon, some 400 protesters, many of whom were not wearing yellow vests, gathered in Place Bellecour, defying the ban on the prefecture.
Mobilized in number, the police proceeded in the early afternoon to “9 arrests for unlawful assemblies to commit an offence and carrying illegal weapons,” according to the prefecture.
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” Reason for living “
In Toulouse, several hundred people demonstrated, pacing the major boulevards and shopping streets of the centre, with the cry of “Toulouse, Toulouse, get up”.
“Everyone was betting on our breathlessness, but you see, we’re back, always more and we will not let go,” said Véronique, a 74-year-old retiree, who said she found in the movement a “reason to live “.
In Marseille, 200 people, including about fifty bearers of the symbolic chasuble, paraded behind a banner calling for the “suppression of the IGPN, in the service of laundering policies”.
The movement also gathered some 200 people in Montpellier and 150 in Bordeaux. In the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a dozen yellow vests welcomed the Minister of Finance Bruno Le Maire, came to inaugurate the 71st fair of Pau, by intoning: “We’re here, we’re here, we’re still there”, but their song was covered by the music of a fanfare.
