This Friday morning, the scars of the excesses of the day before are clearly visible in the city center of Toulouse. The day before, on the sidelines of the demonstration against the pension reform, clashes took place between the police and "black blocks", ending the procession parade, caught in tear gas.

Everywhere in the streets of the Pink City, garbage cans were set on fire, bus shelters or traffic lights dismantled. "Thirty-five people were arrested yesterday. Several police officers were injured as well as a person on the sidelines of the demonstration, "says in a temporary report Pierre-André Durand, the prefect of Haute-Garonne who "strongly condemns the abuses".

"Unacceptable acts" for Jean-Luc Moudenc

The representative of the State indicates that these activists proceeded to throw petanque balls, cobblestones, broken cement, metal objects of all kinds, "leading the police to use tear gas grenades in response".



Degradations also condemned by the mayor of Toulouse, Jean-Luc Moudenc, who evokes "inadmissible acts" of "breakers" and calls for "calm, appeasement and the resumption of a constructive dialogue".

  • Pension reform 2023
  • Toulouse
  • Occitania
  • Black Blocs
  • Vandalism
  • Police