200,000 protesters take to streets in 'Block Everything' protest as France's new PM faces first test

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200,000 protesters take to streets in 'Block Everything' protest as France's new PM faces first test  According to the Ministry of the Interior, 200,000 people demonstrated across France but labour unions put the figure at more than 250,000.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/09/10/french-police-arrest-nearly-200-as-block-everything-protests-paralyse-the-country  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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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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