French Bikers Protest

If you have been following our report, on French riders not being a bit happy regarding proposals to be introduced by their government, you will know that there was demonstrations across France yesterday - 18th June 2011.

How did the demonstrations go?

UK France Bikers.com reports that yesterdays – 18th June 2011 – French riders protests against their governments plans to introduce a raft of “ridiculous” road safety policies and law enforcement legislation attracted approximately 100,000 riders across France and some of its overseas territories, including the island of Reunion (located off Madagascar and Mauritius) with almost 2,000 bikers, the islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe in the Caribbean and also some bikers gathered on the island of New Caledonia (located off Australia and New Zealand).

FFMC – the Fédération Française des Motards en Colère (The French Federation of Angry Bikers) reported that, “Each town and city was brought to a complete standstill for hours with the local population being totally unable to move around.”

“Paris alone saw more than 15,000 bikers blocking the heart of the capital, Lyon (France’s second largest city) saw more than 10,000 bikers, Lille (in the north of the country) counted more than 7,000 angry motorcyclists, Toulouse (in the south-west) was totally blocked by 8,000 bikers, Marseille and Bordeaux (in the south-east and south-west respectively) were also paralysed by 3,000 bikers each.”

“Thousands of bikers blocked central France with 3,500 of them in Clermont-Ferrand, the whole of Brittany (in the north-west) with more than 3,000 bikers in Brest, Quimper and Rennes.”

“The east of the country was also brought to a standstill with more than 6,000 bikers protesting in Strasbourg, Mulhouse Reims and Metz.”

“Smaller towns were also the scene of protests with 600 bikers each in Niort and Dijon, 400 in the beautiful and historic town of Carcassonne, 700 in Perpignan, 900 in Poitiers and 400 in Auxerre, to name a few.”