Hundreds arrested as “blocking everything” demonstrations, Grip France | Protests

More than 80,000 police officers have been deployed while demonstrators gathered against the government of Macron and austerity policies.

French police arrested hundreds of people while demonstrations led by left forces under the “blocking everything” label were launched across the country.

More than 200 people were allegedly arrested in the morning while the demonstrators set fire to the trash cans and blocked the highways, stimulated by the frustration with the government of President Emmanuel Macron in the midst of a national political crisis.

The 80,000 police officers deployed across the country responded with episodes of tear gas and detainees.

The manifestations – which are part of a basic movement called “blocks falling back” or “blocking everything” – sought to use work strikes, blockade and other acts of challenge to express the anger of long -term dissemination on the government and its austerity measures.

The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, reported that a bus had been burnt down in the western city of Rennes and that damage to a electric line had blocked the trains in the southwest. However, the manifestations initially seemed more tamed than the previous access of troubles against Macron’s leadership.

The plan of “all blocking everything” emerged after former Prime Minister François Bayrou lost a vote with confidence on Monday and Macron named Close Ally, the Minister of Defense, Sebastien Lecornu, to replace him.

He is the fifth Prime Minister of France in less than two years and the fourth in 12 months.

Florent, a demonstrator in Lyon, told AFP’s news agency that Macron’s decision to appoint his close ally of the higher post “is a slap opposite”.

“We are tired of its successive governments; We need change, “he said.

The Block Everything, which has become viral on social networks, was fueled by increased dismay on the budget oath policies that Bayrou defended, as well as wider concerns concerning poverty and inequalities, which have increased sharply in recent years, according to the Statistics Bureau of France.

Its spontaneity recalls the movement of the “yellow vest” which rocked Macron’s first mandate as president, when demonstrators dressed in yellow across the country have challenged the increase in fuel prices and pro-enterprise policies for weeks by demonstrations which have become increasingly violent.