France struck by protests when Prime Minister Sebastien Guardo took office

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The protests took place across the country after calling by Grassroots Movement Bloquons Tout (“Let’s block everything”)

France observes a day of protests led by a movement name Let’s block everything (“Let’s block everything”) in showing anger against the political class and the proposed budget abbreviations.

The demonstrations are held on the same day as the new Prime Minister Sebastien Director swore after the removal of his predecessor Francois Bayro, in a vote without confidence earlier this week.

The demonstrators blocked the streets, set fire to bins and interrupted access to infrastructure and schools across the country.

About 250 people have been arrested since mid -morning, Interior Minister Bruno Deptle said.

The bus was burned in Reni, and the electric cables near Toulouse were sabotaged, he added.

Several thousand people gathered in Paris, Marseille, Bordeaux and Montpellier.

However, the interruptions remain quite small. Most of the arrests were made in or around Paris, where about 1,000 protesters – many masked or bearing balaclava – were confronted with police outside the Gare du Nord railway station.

Some tried to enter the station, but were thwarted by agents who fired tear gas, a report from the French media.

Many protesters chanted political slogans against President Emanuel Macron and Direct. Several wore signs against the war in Gaza.

The mist, let’s block everything that seems to have been born on social media a few months ago and gained speed in the summer when it encouraged people to protest for € 44 billion (€ 38 billion).

The movement has a distinct left character. Its requirements include more investment in public services, taxation of high income brackets, freezing and resignation of Macron.

For the protests on Wednesday, let’s block everything urged people to participate in acts of civil disobedience against “strict savings, contempt and humiliation”.

A group of young protesters outside Gare Du Nord told the BBC that they were flying on the street in Solidarity with people in uncertain situations in France.

“We are here because we are very tired of how Macron has dealt with the situation” of France’s spiral debt, “said Alex, 25, adding that there is no faith in the new Prime Minister not to” repeat the cycle “.

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The transfer of power between Francois Bayro (L) and Sébastien Lecornu was held in Paris on Wednesday

Macron’s Loyalist and Fifth Prime Minister of the country for less than two years.

His appointment has already been criticized by both extreme and left -wing parties.

First, he will have to come up with a budget enjoyable MPs in the French Parliament – the same challenging endeavor that his two predecessors removed.

The France deficit reached 5.8% of GDP in 2024, but the three different ideological groups in the deeply divided assembly disagree how to deal with the crisis.

The radical-left France Unbowed Party has already stated that the trust movement in Lecornu will be dressed as soon as possible.

However, this proposal will need support from other countries. It seems that the biggest parliamentary party – the far -right national rally – said he “will listen to what a” though “though” no illusions “must say.

In a brief speech after the transfer of power at the Prime Minister’s residence, Glow thanks Bayro for his work and promised French people: “We will get there.”

“The instability and the political crisis that we go through through the sobriety and humility of the search,” said Guard.

“We will have to be more creative, more serious, the way we work with the opposition,” he added, before announcing that he would start talking to political parties and unions immediately.

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