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The social security deficit will be lower than expected this year and "we expect a strong improvement in 2022" to 21.6 billion, says France's Public Accounts Minister Olivier Dussopt in Paris. IMAGES
France's Minister of Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti, and the Minister of Health Olivier V֤éran arrive at a branch of the Family Allowance Fund (CAF) in Lyon. Since the beginning of January, the government has set up a "public alimony service", which enables separated or divorced couples to entrust the family allowance or agricultural social mutual insurance funds (MSA) to an intermediary for the payment of these pensions and aims to limit unpaid alimony, a situation which affects 350,000 separated parents, 85% of whom are mothers. IMAGES
Police use water cannons at Place de la République in Paris as they disperse the last participants in a demonstration against the global security law. [COMPLETES VIDI8WJ8NG_EN and VIDI8WJ6HG_EN] IMAGES
Tensions grow at Paris' Place de la République where the police is using tear gas to try to disperse the remaining protesters in a demonstration against a new security law. IMAGES
Thousands of people march in the streets of Paris against precariousness and freedom. "Without social rights, there are no real freedoms," says Pierre Garnodier, a Union CGT leader in the procession. Initially planned as a trade union rally against precariousness, the day of national mobilisation on Saturday saw protesters criticise police violence and the global security law. IMAGES
"We let my brother die on the ground like a dog" says Assa Traoré recalled the story of his brother Adama at the start of a tribute demonstration to the young man who died shortly after his arrest at the end of a police chase in 2016. The march brings together thousands of people in the Val-d'Oise region of France who are demanding the truth about various cases of police violence. IMAGES