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Tensions run high in Paris as demonstrators once again rallied in protest against the planned pension reform announced by French President Emmanuel Macron
Two days after more than one million people took to the streets, raising their voices against the government’s proposed pension reforms, clashes erupted in the capital between police and demonstrators. Angry protesters started setting trash cans on fire, breaking traffic lights, and blowing up firecrackers.
“Macron is stubborn, he is totally in the minority. There is 92 or 93 percent of people in the workforce who are opposed to this reform,” a member of La France Insoumise (LFI) party said in the protests.
“The government is arrogant as usual. There is a historic mobilization, the President of the Republic has gone on a trip abroad. These people are disconnected from reality,” another protester said.
At the front of the procession, some protesters smashed bank windows and cash machines and some other protesters threw garbage cans, bottles and smoke bombs, while chanting “Down with capitalism” and “Macron, we will fight till the end!”
The protesters burned trash cans in the streets, as police forces beat the protesters with riot batons.
According to the police headquarters, twenty arrests were also made in Paris.
The protest against the pension reform was organized by 11 youth organizations and the left-wing La France Insoumise (LFI) party led by Jean-Luc Melenchon. The LFI, the far-left New Anticapitalist Party, and the alliance of left-leaning political groups known as the New Ecological and Social People’s Union were all represented by participants waving banners.
