“Pulling retirement back two years means that we will have firefighters in action at the age of 64… Do you see firefighters at the age of 64 at the top of a large ladder?
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Like hundreds of thousands of French people, Didier, a firefighter, beat the pavement this Thursday against the pension reform project.
And as for many demonstrators interviewed, this postponement of the retirement age is what comes up most often.
“It makes me very angry, explains Myriam, who works in a crèche.
When I started working at 20, that's not what I was promised”.
Same concern for Alexia, a teacher-librarian, who is holding a sign that reads “An EHPAD??
No, a high school…”
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This Thursday was marked by a very strong mobilization: “more than two million” demonstrators everywhere in France according to the CGT;
1.12 million according to the Ministry of the Interior, but also strikes followed at school, in energy or transport.
The unions have already announced a new day of action, January 31, to try to get the government to back down.