Shortly after the announcement of the results, about 500 people, mainly young people, mounted barricades, degraded bank foremost, broken trade windows or shelterbus, or tagged many walls.
Le Monde and AFP
Rennes’ prosecuts announced on Monday, April 11, having opened a flagrance investigation after the violence and degradation that took place the night before in the center of this city, after the announcement of election results.
This survey open from Sunday evening “is aimed at the heads of serious degradation on public goods of public and private property during demonstration on public roads,” said France-Press (AFP) the Prosecutor’s Office Rennes, stating that the sentence was five years and 75,000 euros fine. Depending on the floor, “various degradations were committed during the evening” in the center of the Breton metropolis.
In Rennes, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has arrived in the lead with 36.31%, in front of Emmanuel Macron (29.47%) and Marine Le Pen 7.29%, far from his national score. Shortly after the announcement of the results, about 500 people, mainly young, encased for some, have risen from the barricades, degraded bank foremost, broken shop windows or shelterbus, or still tagged many walls, has noted a reporter from AFP.
Anticapitalist slogans
Among the registered tags were “the youth figures the national fascism, the fascist penny denasty”, “burns the right”, “social war”. The protesters also chanted anticapitalist and hostile slogans on the far right.
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Youuri (first name modified at his request), one of the 21-year-old demonstrators, told a reporter from AFP:
“In five years, Macron he broke everything and there we refut it at the second Tour … we, we do not care about the rage and we only have to express yourself: the fire and break tricks. “
Roxane, a 21-year-old protester, she explained:
“It takes measures that fit what people want and not just a higher class that imposes without arguments … and to make the game from the far right at each election turn, it does not work anymore and the people they do not want any more. “
The Socialist Mayor of Rennes, Nathalie Reacted, had reacted to these violence on his account Twitter :
“I strongly condemn the degradations committed tonight in the city center of Rennes. Democracy is not and it will never be violence or vandalism.”