“Block Everything” on September 10: One Month Before, What Do We Know About the Movement?

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At the call of a movement born on TikTok, a day of "national blockade" is planned for September 10. Initially led by far-right figures, the movement has expanded to include left-wing slogans, but remains largely elusive.

On the website of the movement calling for "blocking everything" on September 10. (Albin Bonnard/Hans Lucas. AFP)

by Maxime Macé and Pierre Plottu

For the upcoming budget debate at the start of the school year, François Bayrou has already been able to gauge the level of adversity from his usual opponents, both political and union, who are very angry about the austerity plan announced by the Prime Minister. But the government does not yet know what to expect from another possible actor in the coming weeks: the nebulous movement that, on social media, is calling for the country to be "blocked" on Wednesday, September 10. This initiative claims to be "apolitical" and whose terms have not yet been clearly defined, a month before the meeting.

As Libé reported at the end of July , this movement, still virtual, emanates from a video posted online on July 14, one day before François Bayrou's budget announcements , on the TikTok account of Les Essentiels, an organization advocating "a sovereign France" attached "to the Christian roots of France" and demanding, among other things, "Frexit" . The call was relayed by former figures of the yellow vests, but also by ext accounts