November 5 strike: Inter‑union confederation files appeal in Lyon after union march ban

The inter-union filed an appeal in the form of interim relief before the administrative court, the CFDT said in a press release on Wednesday, November 4, while the Rhône prefect banned any “demonstration, procession, parade, gathering and protest gathering on the public highway in the city center of Lyon” on Thursday, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. The court's decision is expected Wednesday afternoon. Also read • Direct Mobilization of November 5: the Ministry of National Education estimates the rate of strikers in public primary education at 17.54% on Thursday The CFDT denounces an "irresponsible prefectural decision" and expresses its "strong indignation".

The union organization announces that it “firmly refuses that public freedom be restricted on the grounds that some threaten to free themselves from the republican framework”. A new day of interprofessional mobilization is planned for Thursday, November 5. The prefect recalls the past of October 17. For its part, the prefecture puts forward security reasons.

In his decree, the prefect recalls in particular that, on October 17, "the tourist office at Place Bellecour was set on fire" and that "numerous businesses were looted or burned in the Presqu'île as well as around the Part-Dieu and Confluence shopping centers and in the 3rd, 6th and 7th arrondissements". The prefect also recalls that projectiles and mortar fireworks targeted the police on October 17 and 31. The ban on demonstrations concerns a perimeter which includes part of the 3rd and 6th arrondissements up to the Parc de la Tête d'Or and the Gare Part-Dieu.

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