A few 3.100 to 7.000 civil agents of the ministry of the Defense and salaried employees of arming public corporations showed Saturday in Paris against the reductions of strengths and the restructuring's of the armies, according to the respective evaluations of the police and unions. The demonstrators, behind a streamer proclaiming "for the defense of the employment, for the use in the defense", paraded of the place of Republic (10th Farr) until the opera (8th farr), while throwing the smoke-producing and to the sound of a music distributed by trucks of sound system.

They protested against the consequences of the white Book on the Defense, that recommends the deletion of 54.000 civil and military stations on 320.000 from six or seven years on (of 2009 to 2015). A delegation of salaried employees of the arsenal of Brest had taken place in the parade, with Breton flags and while wearing a gigantic beret flanked of the slogan ""no to the externalization." The 75.000 civil agents of the ministry and the salaried employees of enterprises like Netter, DCNS, SNPE, were called to this demonstration by an inter-union of the sector (CGT, FO, CFDT, Unsa, CFTC and CGC).