French Protester on Macron, Police Violence and Marine Le Pen

We're here because, uh, there's been like, uh, one month of movements,

strikes, uh, demonstration, occupation of universities, uh,

high school, and the government, the only, uh, response, the only

answer to, to the mobilization is repression, repression,

police, and, and police. So we need to continue fighting against

Macron.

Okay. Is this about students' grievances and,

uh, education

budgets, things like that?

It all started, uh, with the youth movement, with the

youth, uh, revolt, but it concerns the entire society.

Every- everybody's going to, uh, to fight.

Everybody needs to fight against the government, a- against Macron,

and against capitalism.

I can see, I see that you're handing out anti-capitalist

shit.

Yeah. Yeah.

What does that have to do... W- why, why are you handing that out?

Because, uh, the, the youth, the, the people are revolting, not

just because of one little issue, but because of the whole system.

In the, the demonstration, uh, people are, are singing,

"Siamo Tutti Antifascisti," they are standing for Palestine, they are,

uh, going, uh, against war. Um, it's the whole

system that is being contested, and the role of the youth, the role

of the young people also in this society.

So the whole society needs to change.

Is this a socialist movement? Are you a socialist?

I'm a socialist. I'm a communist. I'm anti-capitalist, revolutionary.

You can pick, uh, the word or, that you like.

Okay. What do you think about some of the

violence that we've seen in previous

week's protests?

Mm-hmm. But the violence is, uh, the police. The police is violent.

Police.

The government is violent. And may- also n-

now today, they were, like, um, uh,

interdit. I don't know how to say. Like, uh, they were not letting us,

uh, to demonstrate.

Mm-hmm.

So they are, like, uh, stopping, like, legally, uh, and

with the police force. They're, they want us to not be in the streets,

but the people are continuing.

Have you seen the looting of, uh, restaurants and stores,

like, a destruction of property?

The, the police is causing that. The government is causing the violence,

not the, not the people, not the movement.

It's the, the government that needs to be, uh, less violent.

Is, is doing that kind of stuff okay to, to reach your goal?

Because we've seen it's not police officers looting stores and breaking in,

it's,

uh, protesters.

Mm-hmm. I'm standing with, um, a declaration.

It's the police that is violent, and for the last 10 years,

Macron, the only answer of, uh, the movement is

violence and violence and more violence.

People are revolting, and they are revolting because of that

government, that, uh, authoritarian government.

Can I ask one more thing?

Yeah.

Marine Le Pen's chances of winning the April election are surging right now.

Mm-hmm.

According to Kalshi odds and, uh, other indicators, polls.

What do you think about her and, uh, uh, what, what's gonna happen if she wins?

I'm going to say this in Spanish. No pasaran. They are not going to pass.

They are not going... France is not going to have a far right, uh,

government because people are revolting, and we are going to

fight against Macron, but we are going to fight also against Marine Le

Pen.

There's a demonstration in Orléans, uh, now happening because of the

Congress of the Rassemblement National that is happening this weekend.

Yeah.

Uh, and we are not going to let, uh, the racists and the

fascists, uh, uh, in, into power. Uh, people are not

going to, to let that happen.

Absolutely. Thank you so much.