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Added on the 17/03/2023 10:05:12 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
"91% of working people are against", "let's block the country": a few thousand people demonstrate at the Place de la Concorde, in Paris, to protest against the pension reform and the triggering of article 49.3. IMAGES
Police are carrying out checks on the Paris ring road at the Porte de Saint-Cloud as convoys of protesters against vaccine passes inspired by similar protests in Ottawa begin to arrive in Paris with the aim of defying a prefectural ban on public demonstrations. IMAGES
Several thousand demonstrators, including railway workers, teachers and lawyers, took to the streets of Paris to march against pension reform. The government wants to fuse France's 42 different retirement schemes into a single points-based system but opponents fear a drastic decline in pension levels. IMAGES
About a hundred opponents of Macron's pension reform demonstrate in the Opera district in Paris, clashing with police forces. IMAGES
Protests against French President Emmanuel Macron's pension reforms start in Paris, on the eighth day of an enduring strike. IMAGES