Emmanuel Macron is enraging the French people with his pension reform. During his visit to the south of France, protesters confiscated cooking pots. The reason: a ban on “portable audio devices” during the presidential visit.
A ban on cooking pots at a demonstration against President Emmanuel Macron and his pension reform caused head shaking in France. Ahead of Macron’s visit to the Ganges in southern France, police officers turned away protesters carrying pots, videos show. The media also reported confiscated pots.
The officials justified this with an order from the department. It banned wearing “portable audio devices” for the duration of the presidential visit, which apparently also targeted pots. Because with loud banging, protesters had expressed their dissatisfaction with Macron’s reform in recent days.
Macron: ‘No pots will move France forward’
“Eggs and pots, that’s what I cook with,” Macron said at the start of his visit to the south of France, where protesters threw eggs and potatoes far from the head of state.
Opposition politicians joked about the government’s crackdown on cooking pots. “It’s not the pots that will move France forward,” Macron said at a drum protest in Alsace on Wednesday. The traditional pot manufacturer Cristel promptly made itself heard with a wink on Thursday. “Mr President, at @cristelfrance we make cooking pots that move France forward!!!”
Meanwhile, thousands of people protested in France on Thursday against the reform that Macron has now introduced, raising the retirement age from 62 to 64. Instead of large demonstrations, as before, it was more about selective protest actions.
Protesters storm corporate buildings
Demonstrators temporarily blocked train tracks, such as in Lille. A group of opponents of the pension reform broke into the building of exchange operator Euronext in Paris on Thursday. Waving union flags, 200 to 300 demonstrators briefly occupied the company’s lobby in the La Defense district. They demanded that large companies contribute to the financing of pensions.
“We have been told that there is no money to fund the pensions,” said Fabien Villedieu of the Sud-Rail union. But you don’t have to take the money out of the pockets of the workers, it’s in the pockets of the billionaires.
Source: Krone
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