The battle of numbers is a classic of social mobilization. In general, the numbers of police and unions vary more or less in a ratio of one to two. And we have other journalists tend to believe that the truth must by definition be somewhere in between. Not in the Tarn. The differences in estimates are so large that the local director of public safety has decided, according to police sources quoted by the daily Le Monde, to enlist the services of a bailiff to catch out those who accuse the police of cheating on the figures. According to the officer, Vialelle Lawrence, the protesters were 4380 last Thursday in Albi, "with a margin of error of 100 persons." The police, she scored in 4200. Unions ... 20 000! Even in Marseille they did not dare. Without doubt an exhilarating effect of the World Heritage listing of humanity ...
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