In the cities where hundreds of protesters gathered, there was a significant deployment of police on the perimeter of the demonstrations.
On Sunday evening, several hundred protesters protested against the re-election of Emmanuel Macron in some French cities. The rallies were marked by incidents in Rennes, as well as in Paris, reports Le Monde.
Only a few hundred protesters gathered in the center of Rennes, despite the large number of police on the perimeter. They held banners reading “What we don't get from the ballot box, we will get from the streets” and then marched in a procession shouting “Macron is also at war with us and his police” or “The fall of the state, cops and fascists” .
According to the prefecture, which banned the demonstration, protesters set fire to several garbage cans, forcing firefighters to intervene three times. Police used tear gas.
“We want to show that we don't want Le Pen at all (to see the president – ed.), But Macron as well,” 21-year-old Nora told AFP. “We must organize ourselves, find the strength to resist”
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Thomas, a 19-year-old history student, yet voted for Macron to “block the far right.” “This second round does not correspond to what we want for the future of young people,” he said. “People who are here tonight are legitimately angry and want to say so.”
According to the prefecture, seven demonstrators were arrested and one taken into custody at the end of the evening. shouts of “Macron away”, sometimes in contact with the police. They chanted “Marine Le Pen, it's disgusting” and “Manu Macron, it's disgusting” in the Republic Square, surrounded by a large number of police.
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Two killed in the night after the second round
It is also known that two people died in the French capital after the second round of presidential elections. The reason was the refusal to obey the police, who were massively involved in maintaining law and order on the streets of the capital. A car with the future victims of the incident was parked in the wrong direction in the city center, Le Figaro reports.
in the vehicle, pointing an automatic weapon at him. The driver rushed towards the police at full speed. The police started firing immediately, “said a witness heard by police.
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