(1 May 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris – 1 May 2024
1. Activists holding up and burning paper Olympic rings
2. Smouldering Olympic rings on ground
3. Mid of protester Ritchy Thibault, member of the “For a popular and social ecology” movement
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Ritchy Thibault, member of the “For a popular and social ecology” movement:
"To tell you the truth, the message is very simple, it’s that Mr. Macron (French President, Emmanuel Macron), with his Olympic Games, wants France to shine internationally. He wants to celebrate the elite on a global scale. They are celebrating this at the price of blood, at the price of people’s dignity. In other words, they are evicting the homeless, the precarious, they are evicting local students, they are building in a matter of moments, Olympic villages that can accommodate several thousand people, while for decades they have done nothing to house the people on the street. So these games, it’s social cleansing, social contempt, it’s an ecological disaster."
5. May Day rally with union balloons and logos
6. Close of sign reading (French) “Non ecological Olympic games, a scandal”
7. SOUNDBITE (French) Ritchy Thibault, member of “For a popular and social ecology” movement:
“It’s a disaster in democratic terms, with major attacks on our fundamental freedoms, with QR codes to get into the centre of Paris, with experiments in terms of algorithmic surveillance, facial surveillance. It’s a disaster in democratic, social and environmental terms. So yes, here, on this 1ᵉʳ May, a day of international struggle, we will not be pushed around”.
8. Zoom in on protesters marching
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Paul Alauzy, spokesperson for the campaign “Flip Side of the Medal”:
“One of the last squats in Ile de France, the biggest one left, was evicted 100 days before the Games. So we will get to a moment when there will have been so much social cleansing, so many people evicted from the Ile de France that in fact, during the summer, the authorities will be able to say ‘Look, there’s nothing more to see, move along, it’s fine, look, the associations are talking rubbish, there’s nothing going on’. So what we’re interested in doing is documenting everything that’s happened, so that we can also legitimately express ourselves during the summer’.
10. Various of Paris May Day rally
STORYLINE:
Protesters gathered at the Place de la Republique in the French capital on Wednesday to participate in a May Day march led by France’s main unions, seeking better pay and working conditions.
Pro-Palestinian groups and anti-Olympic activists joined the march through Paris, which will host the Summer Games in less than three months.
A group of protesters set a makeshift Olympic rings on fire to show discontent with the Summer Games.
France’s unions have warned of a strike during the Games if the government does not adequately compensate people forced to work during summer holidays.
May Day, which falls on May 1, is observed to celebrate workers’ rights.
It’s also an opportunity to air economic grievances or political demands
France remains tense, with recent protests from teachers, police officers and farmers following huge demonstrations last year against the rise in retirement age.
AP video shot by: Oleg Cetinic and Nicolas Garriga
Production by: Masha Macpherson and Alex Turnbull
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