Artists in the street. It is a demonstration placed under the sign of the happening which was held, in the morning of this Monday, May 1st. The procession, composed of between 10,000 and 15,000 people, did not give rise to any major overflow. On the contrary, several artists had decided to show, in their own way, their anger at the pension reform. Because it was this reform that was still on everyone’s lips.
Symbolic silent procession
Here, a group of actresses from Lille marched in silence, all made up as demonstrators injured in the eye and gagged by a piece of tape where one could read 49.3. At the head of this symbolic silent procession, we could recognize Corinne Masiero, the interpreter of Captain Marleauthe series of France 2, whose political commitment is no longer demonstrated.
A little further on, it is a well-known figure in the artistic and political world of Lille who had chosen to challenge, in his own way, the pension reform. Alessandro Di Giuseppe, alias the Pap 40, is a former whimsical candidate in the legislative elections. His credo: play the capitalist evangelists, disguised as a priest. With irony as the main weapon.
In short, we were not bored in the procession before, for some, going to continue the day at the international soup festival called La Louche d’Or. An unmissable Lille event that can accommodate up to 40,000 visitors.