DRUMBEATS HEARD HALF A MILE AWAY
Police vans line avenue de Choisy that leads to City Hall. (This is where the Dominican monks were massacred.)
At place d'Italie the crowd was too great to proceed toward City Hall.
Anti-war messages on both sides of the sign.
"In Palestine. In Ukraine. In the world. PEACE!"
The flag of indigenous people in the Andes
"Women in Struggle"
"May 1: LONG LIVE THE WORKERS' INTERNATIONAL STRUGGLE !"
T-shirt sticker: "Capitalism is war. If you want peace, prepare the revolution!"
A brawl led to two arrests lower down on this street, but here police and demonstrators chat amicably.
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After two hours of celebration the demonstrators marched through the eastern city, gathering even more participants.
They arrived at another huge space once built for massing troops, place de la Nation.
Participants listening to speech by the leader of France insoumis ("France unbowed") / zoom
Media stated that the crowd there
was twice as large as in 2024.
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