“We’re not here for that! », « Reimburse! “. Friday evening, a musician from the National Orchestra of Lyon took the floor to express his opposition to the pension reform before a concert with the violinist Renaud Capuçon at the Auditorium. Even before he unrolled his text, the audience launched a wave of hisses and boos.
The speech of this musician, also union representative of the National Orchestra, lasted only five minutes. He evokes “the arduousness of this passion job”, its instability with the “choice of being intermittent” and a “chopped career” hence the opposition of professionals to the postponement of the legal retirement age, “like 75% of the French,” he recalls. Between the boos, some applause still sounded.
Same reaction from the public in Lille
On social networks, where the images circulated all weekend, many Internet users supported the musicians, deploring the attitude of the spectators. Fabien Bagnon, vice-president of the metropolis of Lyon, in charge of roads and active mobility, described this reaction from part of the public as “scandalous”. “What lack of respect, what lack of manners, what vulgarity,” he said. tweeted.
The speech of a musician from the National Orchestra of Lille (ONL) was received in the same way as in Lyon, also this weekend. “I’m done, it’s going to be brief”, had to specify the professional between the many episodes of boos. He also proclaimed the ONL’s disagreement with the pension reform.