“France Protests: 320,000 March Against Pension Reform as Police Clash with Demonstrators i” — what this page in the network covers. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across France on Saturday in the latest round of protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform, with the interior ministry estimating a nationwide turnout of 320,000. While the figure marked a decline from the previous two weekends, t While the figure marked a decline from the previous two weekends, the demonstrations remained a powerful display of public anger over the plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.
In Paris and several other cities, clashes broke out between police and protesters, with officers firing tear gas and making arrests as some groups set fires and smashed shop windows. The protests have become a defining challenge for Macron’s government, which used a special constitutional power to push the pension law through parliament without a vote last month. For the complete material, the listing points back to the source inside the network.