They have not been replaced for several weeks. The Rennes people who frequent the city center had noticed it, moving daily in bus shelters quickly tarpaulined and billboards disfigured. This Wednesday, the city of Rennes made the news official. After the multiple damages committed in the city center during the demonstrations against the pension reform, street furniture will no longer be refurbished or replaced. "The company Clear Channel (which operates advertising street furniture) has decided to temporarily suspend the replacement of this furniture," said the municipality led by Nathalie Appéré (PS).

Since the beginning of the mobilization in January, bus shelters, screens and billboards but also shop windows and cars have been vandalized at each demonstration. After each mobilization, the city's technical teams are busy trying to restore some dignity to the streets of the city center. But everywhere you can see the marks left by the thugs. In the city center, some businesses live behind large wooden barricades tagged for several months for fear of being attacked by demonstrators.



"How far will this destructive madness go?"

After the multiple excesses, the mayor Nathalie Appéré had expressed her anger against the thugs but also against the State. "The people of Rennes, the inhabitants of the city centre and especially our shopkeepers, are the incredulous victims of this outburst of violence. The damage amounts to hundreds of thousands of euros. What will happen now? How far will this destructive madness go? " asked the elected representative. During the last mobilizations, the police station on rue de Penhoët was burned, as was the entrance to the convent of the Jacobins, a congress center delivered at the end of 2017 for more than 110 million euros.

A new rally is announced on Monday, May 1 at the call of all unions. The event will take place in the popular district of Maurepas. But a second call for a rally in the city centre has already been announced.

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