2023-04-25 14:38:45
AFP journalists reported that Emmanuel Macron was greeted by a concert of pans this Tuesday followingnoon in Vendôme (Loir-et-Cher), where several hundred demonstrators were kept away from the presidential visit.
The president arrived around 2 p.m. (French time) at the multidisciplinary university health center (MSPU) in the city, where an important security device had been put in place to keep the demonstrators at a distance.
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Several hundred people opposing the pension reform, armed with saucepans, cans and trumpets, had gathered along a railway line near the nursing home in the middle of the day, for their “casserolade”. .
Bruno Vivien, retired from metallurgy, came with his little bugle. “It’s to wake up our president, so that he stops making fun of us,” he told an AFP correspondent.
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Shortly before the arrival of the presidential convoy, they invaded the railway tracks while some of them approached a police roadblock.
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