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  • This tenth day of mobilization against the pension reform comes as the government and unions warn against a risk of "chaos" and it is against a backdrop of deleterious and violent climate, that Emmanuel Macron received Monday the heavyweights of the majority - party leaders, ministers, parliamentarians - but also Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne at the Elysee.
  • For his part, government spokesman Olivier Véran denounced Monday the attitude of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and LFI, "rentiers of anger" according to him, who are "ready to undermine our institutions".
  • While the mobilization of this Tuesday 28 but promises to be very followed, more than 15% of France service stations are short of gasoline or diesel, the shortage being more pronounced in the west of the country. It should be noted that 30% of primary school teachers will be on strike, predicts the Snuipp-FSU, the first union in nursery and elementary schools. While 3,000 police and gendarmes will be mobilized, including 5,500 in Paris, announced Monday evening Gerald Darmanin.

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07h09 : SNCF, RATP... Update on the disruptions expected on Tuesday

20 Minutes has compiled the disruptions expected in transport this Tuesday, and it's here:




6:57 am: Fear of "chaos" sets in

At the beginning of a tenth day of demonstrations Tuesday against the pension reform, government and unions warn of a risk of "chaos" and it is against a backdrop of deleterious and violent climate, that Emmanuel Macron received Monday the heavyweights of the majority. The point here:



6:51 am: The Constitutional Council is expected, not sure that it is at the rendezvous

Opponents of the pension reform expect a lot from the Constitutional Council, but the institution often defends the executive. An update with our political journalist Rachel Garrat-Valcarcel:


Opponents of the pension reform expect a lot from the Constitutional Council, but the institution often defends the executive https://t.co/pWqQeHh5tY

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6:47 am: Seventeen investigations opened at the IGPN since the beginning of the demonstrations

The General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) has been seized of 17 judicial investigations since the first national day of mobilization against the pension reform in January, said Sunday its director. "Since January 19 ... we have had 17 legal proceedings," Agnès Thibault-Lecuivre said on BFMTV, adding that "this figure is by definition evolving." On Friday, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin revealed that 11 IGPN investigations had been opened "for a week".

6:38 am: Fuel update

More than 15% of France petrol stations have run out of petrol or diesel, with shortages being more pronounced in the west of the country, following mobilizations in refineries to protest against the pension reform.

The most affected department remains Loire-Atlantique (55.06% of stations in shortage of at least one fuel), according to data from the government fuel price website, analyzed by AFP. Other departments in the west are also very affected (Mayenne, Ille-et-Vilaine, Maine-et-Loire, all above 40% of stations in shortage), and the south also remains strongly affected (Bouches-du-Rhône above 40%, several other departments at more than 30%).

During the weekend, the Port-Jérôme-Gravenchon refinery - whose shipments are still blocked - was shut down, Eric Sellini, a national elected official of the CGT Chemistry, told AFP. Fuel shipments from other sites are also still blocked.

6:35 am: Update on filter dams

Two filtering dams were set up Monday morning at the entrance to the Golfech nuclear power plant (Tarn-et-Garonne), whose second reactor was shut down overnight, a union source said. "The objective is to influence EDF's economy (...) by slowing down the start of the tranche stoppage" to "put pressure on the government" on the issue of pensions, explained Olivier Berty, CGT delegate of the site.

In the Aude, early in the morning, about 80 people also led a filtering barrier at the entrance to the Port-la-Nouvelle oil depot, previously blocked from March 16 to 24. The blockade was lifted at 11:30 am by the police.

Another filtering barrier was installed Monday morning in the Ardennes by a few dozen people at the call of the interunion, on an access road serving both the Stellantis site of Ayvelles, near Charleville-Mézières, and a Cora supermarket.

The roadblock let employees pass but blocked truck exits from both sites since 6:45 a.m., said a spokesman for Stellantis management. The situation was "unblocked" by late morning, Stellantis said.

6:31 am: Update on waste disruptions

More than a hundred people had been peacefully blocking the entrance to an incineration plant in Ivry, near Paris, since Monday morning to demonstrate that "determination is full and complete," said an AFP journalist.

Young activists, hospital civil servants or RATP employees have gathered since 9:00 am in front of the entrance gates of the incineration site, the time at which the first dump trucks of the day were to arrive for unloading. "The goal is to continue until the withdrawal of the text that extends the legal age of departure to 64 years," explained Marc Bontemps, FNME CGT general secretary. Syctom, the Syctom metropolitan union that manages the three incineration plants surrounding the capital, reported two out of three sites disrupted Monday morning, questioned by AFP.

6:12 am: Rejection of a request to end arrests deemed "preventive"

The Administrative Court of Paris has rejected the urgent request of an association, which asked for the cessation of so-called "preventive" arrests in the capital of demonstrators opposed to the pension reform, said Monday the lawyer of the applicants.

The Association for the Defense of Constitutional Liberties (Adelico) had seized Wednesday the administrative court to order the prefect of police of Paris to "stop without delay" to practice "so-called preventive arrests in his policy of maintaining order", during the demonstrations against the use of 49.3 by the government.

For the applicant association, this "technique known as preventive arrests" infringes "the fundamental freedoms of coming and going, demonstrating, assembly and the right to security".

6:07 a.m.: 30% of school strikers Tuesday, union says

Some 30% of primary school teachers will be on strike this Tuesday for the tenth day of inter-union mobilization against the pension reform, plans Monday the Snuipp-FSU, the first union in nursery and elementary schools.

This estimate of the rate of strikers, lower than the previous one, is explained according to the union by "the days of mobilization that follow one another and become a financial sacrifice for teachers". "There is also a concern on the part of teachers not to penalize children and parents at the last moment," explained its secretary general, Guislaine David.

6 hours: Welcome to this live

Hello and welcome to this live. We are going to make you live a particularly busy Tuesday on the front of the pension reform. On the side of the authorities, the executive tried to regain control Monday and proclaimed its desire for "appeasement", while the controversy swells on violence between police and demonstrators.

Inflexible on the substance of the reform, which raises the legal age of departure from 62 to 64 years, Emmanuel Macron has still not found the keys to extinguish the anger of the street. So on the union side, this is the tenth day of mobilization with strikes that continue at the SNCF, the RATP, but especially among the garbage collectors, with the consequence of the formation of piles of garbage, especially in Paris.

Stay tuned, with us, to follow the mobilization live.

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