They had their day as the main characters, with plenty of selfies and group photos.
The luckiest ones will see themselves in the local newspaper, the “stars” managed to be on TV and made some relatives and neighbors from the building and neighborhood envious.
Regarding the department, the Prefecture issued the following bulletin last evening:
Highway A8: traffic is being restored. As for the Saint-Isidore toll, the filtering operation is being lifted.
There are no longer any blockage points at this time. Filtering remains in the areas of ANTIBES (Provence roundabout), GRASSE (Saint-Jacques roundabout), Cagnes-sur-Mer (Alps roundabout), Cannes (Libรฉration roundabout), and Mandelieu-La-Napoule (Tourrades roundabout).
The report communicated by the Ministry of the Interior, based on counts carried out in the field and consolidated at the national level, is as follows:
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at the peak time of participation (around 5:00 PM), there were 282,710 demonstrators counted;
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2,039 demonstrations have now ended;
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1 person died, and 229 were injured, including 7 seriously. Additionally, there are 5 lightly injured and 1 seriously injured (due to an accident) among the police officers; 5 lightly injured gendarmes; 1 firefighter seriously injured while trying to prevent demonstrators from attacking a closed gas station;
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law enforcement officials have made 117 arrests, leading to 73 in custody;
- in Troyes, the Prefecture of Aube was breached, resulting in material damages.
