00:00Here at the Porte de Montreuil in eastern Paris, one of the major axes that leads into the center of the French capital.
00:10The atmosphere has been tense since the early morning.
00:15Demonstrators lit rubbish, bins on fire, and also tried to barricade roads such as these with different obstacles.
00:24But police who are deployed in large numbers have been dismantling obstacles as soon as they appear and chasing the protesters away.
00:45Elsewhere in the capital, the demonstrators burst onto the Paris Ring Road, the busiest highway in Europe,
00:52attempting to block traffic.
00:54But once again, police intervened quite quickly to chase them away.
01:01Today's mobilization is known as Block Everything, and it's part of a nationwide day of protests and strikes.
01:09The goal is to disrupt transport, schools, and daily life in general across France,
01:16to try to increase pressure on the government just two days after Prime Minister François Bayrou's government collapsed
01:25due to his unpopular and austere 2026 budget plan.
01:30It's a pure provocation. It's a fool. It's a fool. It's a fool. If I can tell you, it's completely against our will.
01:38We don't want a right government. We don't want Sébastien Lecornu. We don't want Bayrou. We don't want Barnier.
01:44Why do we always take these decisions against us?
01:47And he knows that. He destabilizes the government totally.
01:49And even on a international level, he destabilizes the government's power in France because everyone is divided.
01:56And while police presence has so far limited the impacts here in Paris,
02:02well, more demonstrations and actions are planned throughout the day,
02:07not only in Paris but across the whole country.
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