Grégory Doucet calls for a compensation fund for ransacked traders

At least four burned cars on the course. Bus shelters, shops, banks, insurance companies and real estate agencies vandalized and two convenience stores looted. In the aftermath of the May 1 demonstration in Lyon, where numerous damages were observed, the mayor of the city strongly condemned this “intolerable violence”.

Grégory Doucet asked the government “to abandon this pension reform”, which he describes as “unfair” and “contemptuous”. He also called on the State to set up a compensation fund for traders “victims of this violence”. “National solidarity is essential in such a situation,” he pleads.

Forty arrests

The elected official must soon meet the regional prefect to discuss the “unfolding of this day”.

Monday, “2,000 individuals at risk including 1,000 black blocks” posted themselves at the head of the procession, according to the prefecture, which reported 40 arrests, including 33 around Place Bellecour.

In total, the police counted 15 minor injuries in their ranks and one more seriously in one hand. Six people were also slightly injured during the demonstration, which dispersed shortly after 5 p.m.


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