Police fire teargas, as protesters set fire to garbage cans and throw projectiles. Read more at straitstimes.com.
PARIS/NANTES, France - Black-clad groups set fire to garbage cans and threw projectiles at police in Paris, who charged at them and threw teargas in confrontations on the fringes of a march against President Emmanuel Macron and his deeply unpopular pension Bill.
However, while public frustration has evolved into broader anti-Macron sentiment, there was less violence than last week and rallies were otherwise largely peaceful.which raises retirement age by two years to 64, infuriating labour leaders who said the government must find a way out of the crisis. since mid-January to show their opposition to the Bill. Unions said the next nationwide day of protests would be on April 6.push the Bill through parliament without a vote.“The Bill has acted as a catalyst for anger over Macron’s policies,” said Fanny Charier, 31, who works for the Pole Emploi office for job seekers.
“We have proposed a way out... and it’s intolerable that we are being stonewalled again,” the head of the CFDT union, Mr Laurent Berger, told reporters at the Paris rally.In the previous big day of protests on Thursday, “Black Bloc” anarchists smashed shop windows, demolished bus stops and ransacked a McDonald’s restaurant in Paris, with similar acts in other cities.
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