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France: hundreds of thousands demonstrate against pension reform

2023-02-11T19:04:05.007Z


Increasing mobilization in French squares against the pension reform, while the bill continues its way through Parliament. According to the Interior Ministry there were 963. (ANSA)


(ANSA) - PARIS, FEBRUARY 11 - Mobilization on the rise in French squares against the pension reform, while the bill continues its way through Parliament.

According to the interior ministry, 963,000 people took part in demonstrations in Paris and many other cities in France today, while the CGT union announced "over 2.5 million".

Both figures, as always very distant from each other, are on the rise since last Tuesday's day of protest.


    In Paris, where the police arrested a dozen people during some tense moments in the march that left from placede la République in the direction of Nation, the interior minister spoke of 93,000 demonstrators against 500,000 according to the CGT.

Isolated groups of "casseurs" damaged a bank branch in the Bastille district, an insurance agency and a fast food restaurant.

A car set on fire.


    New days of mobilization are already scheduled for February 16, on the occasion of the second week of the bill being examined in Parliament, and March 7, when the text will arrive in the Senate.

Since that date, the trade unions have been thinking of launching an all-out strike to "block the country".


   On the far left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon said that "Macron is in the wrong country if he counts on usury" by those protesting against the pension reform.

On the opposite side, Marine Le Pen warned that "the government cannot keep turning its head the other way by refusing to listen to the French".

(HANDLE).


Source: ansa

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