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Climate, Justice, Liberties’ Marches Draw Modest Crowds Across France

Organisers cast the day as a starting point for pressure ahead of budget debates leading into COP30.

Overview

  • Events in roughly 60–70 cities were called by about a dozen environmental groups, backed by hundreds of associations and unions, including the CGT.
  • Turnout reached only a few thousand nationwide, with about 700 in Lyon, 300 in Strasbourg and several hundred in Paris, plus small gatherings in places like Aix-en-Provence and Bordeaux.
  • Organisers advanced concrete demands such as repealing the Duplomb law, a national plan for chlordécone, ending subsidies to large companies, a Zucman tax and an arms embargo to Israel.
  • The marches tied domestic policy goals to international themes through the #DrawTheLine campaign, with rallies featuring Gaza solidarity alongside anti-pesticide and anti-fossil-fuel messages.
  • Participation was far below the 2019 peaks as the coalition positions this mobilisation for follow-up actions linked to the parliamentary budget process and the COP30 summit in Belém.