a demonstration in the streets of Toulouse
At 8 p.m. Sunday April 24, the result fell, Emmanuel Macron was re-elected with 58.6% of the vote. A few minutes later, at Toulousea demonstration a burst.
Emmanuel Macron was re-elected with 58.6 votes. In Toulouse, he achieved the impressive score of 77.48%. However, a procession of demonstrators of several hundred people marched through the streets of the city of Toulouse to show their disagreement with the results of this second round, in a city which had placed Jean-Luc Melenchon leading in the first round with 36.93%, 8 points more than Emmanuel Macron on April 10.
“Neither Macron nor Le Pen” banners
To the banners”Neither Macron nor Le Pen, Revolution” followed songs against “the State, the cops and the fachos”. A procession which abandoned not far from the place Jean-Jaurès and which continued its way towards Joan of Arc. An important device of CRS was in place for this big election night.
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Garbage can fires were also lit, rue de Bayard but in boulevard Strasbourg, requiring the intervention of traders and then firefighters. Remember that the prefect of Haute-Garonne Etienne Guyot had banned any demonstration in Toulouse this Sunday evening.