Today's demonstrations in Strasbourg, France were less destructive than a week ago. In France, socialist rallies continued on Saturday, but at least in Strasbourg they did not lead to pogroms: mostly polling stations and bus stations were damaged. Despite this, the demonstrations still turned out to be significant: about 10-15 thousand people took to the streets out of a total population of 300 thousand. At the end of the initially peaceful march, some of the protesters started clashing with the police, but quickly retreated when they used tear gas (one of the grenades accidentally hit an ordinary apartment). The protestors' slogans were divided into three parts: the most understandable was for canceling cuts in education budgets, the second was accusations against the state authorities for allegedly pandering to the rich and not fighting the rise in prices, the third was anti-government slogans in a quite spirit ("all the police are bastards"). Photo: Bashir Kitchiev / Under.

Today's demonstrations in Strasbourg, France were less destructive than a week ago. In France, socialist rallies continued on Saturday, but at least in Strasbourg they did not lead to pogroms: mostly polling stations and bus stations were damaged. Despite this, the demonstrations still turned out to be significant: about 10-15 thousand people took to the streets out of a total population of 300 thousand. At the end of the initially peaceful march, some of the protesters started clashing with the police, but quickly retreated when they used tear gas (one of the grenades accidentally hit an ordinary apartment). The protestors' slogans were divided into three parts: the most understandable was for canceling cuts in education budgets, the second was accusations against the state authorities for allegedly pandering to the rich and not fighting the rise in prices, the third was anti-government slogans in a quite spirit ("all the police are bastards"). Photo: Bashir Kitchiev / Under.