Demonstrations against Emmanuel Macron using items usually found in the kitchen are part of a proud tradition that stretches across the world
t my home, saucepans and eggs are for cooking,” Emmanuel Macron said after authorities in the village of Ganges announced a ban on “portable sound equipment” ahead of a speech the French president was due to make.
Demonstrators take part in a concert of pans to protest French President Emmanuel Macron’s televised address to the nation on 17 April 2023.Republicans opposed to the new king, Louis Philippe, “sought to make their voices heard by borrowing from reality a customary ritual” known as charivari, or making loud noise, French historian Emmanuel Fureix explained to France Culture radio in 2017.
Anti-government protesters beat spoons against pots and pans, during ongoing protests against the Lebanese government, in Beirut in 2019The first major breakout came in 1971 in Chile against food shortages during the regime of Salvador Allende.
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