More than 500 people demonstrated in Carcassonne on Saturday afternoon against the far right and the RN mayor, elected last March, Christophe Barthès. The rally was supported by several trade unions and associations.
No to the RN, no to the far right. To express their opposition, around 500 people marched in Carcassonne, at Gambetta Square, on Saturday afternoon, reports The Independent. A first gathering of several hundred people had already taken place a few days after the victory of Christophe Barthès, on March 29.
The gathering was organized with the support of several trade unions and associations, in a tense context between the mayor RN and the unions. The banner “The Stock Exchange we are there, we stay there” displayed the message.
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Twenty-five organizations
The CGT, CFDT, SUD, Solidaires and FSU supported this mobilization. The Carcassonne Human Rights League was also present. Twenty-five organizations in total.
“Carcassonne should not be the laboratory for what could happen next year in the presidential election, but a bastion of resistance. We are here to make people aware of the danger of such a scenario,” said the spokesperson for the Nous Carcassonne collective, Yassin El Kdim.
Return occupied offices free of charge
On April 30, Mayor Christophe Barthès called on the CGT, the FSU, SUD and the CFDT to return the offices they occupy for free in the city center, saying that they had “profited for too long from the largesse of taxpayers”. The local co-secretary of the CGT Arthur Peyne sees it as “a direct attack on workers’ rights”.
ud83dudd34 The members of the CGT refused to leave their premises on June 1 as they had been asked.
Faced with this non-compliance with the law, we called in a bailiff who noted the facts.The squatters are over! pic.twitter.com/wPopAVDKMg
— Christophe Barthès (@BarthesChristop) June 2, 2026
The procession left from Square Gambetta, passed by the Pont Neuf, the Pont Vieux, several boulevards, to stop at the Brasserie des Platanes.
The RN candidate Christophe Barthès was elected in the second round of the municipal elections with 40.4% of the votes, compared to 30.84% for François Mourad of Horizons and 28.75% for the socialist Alix Soler-Alcaraz.
