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Added on the 19/01/2023 17:35:31 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Fireworks, burning rubbish bins and looted Leclerc store: First clashes between security forces and a group of several hundred people broke out in Paris at the head of the demonstration against the pension reform. IMAGES
Police use tear gas to disperse rioters during a demonstration against pension reform in Paris. The clashes broke out near Place de la Republique in the city centre. Although the Paris march began peacefully, black-clad protesters later set fire to a storage trailer and broke storefront windows, prompting police to fire tear gas to try to halt the vandalism. (COMPLETES VID1MU0NL_EN) IMAGES
Police use tear gas to disperse rioters during a demonstration against pension reform in Paris. The clashes broke out near Place de la Republique in the city centre. Although the Paris march began peacefully, black-clad protesters later set fire to a storage trailer and broke storefront windows, prompting police to fire tear gas to try to halt the vandalism. IMAGES
Tensions erupt near the Boulevard de Port-Royal in Paris, on the route of the demonstration against pension reform: rubbish bins and a building site shed are set on fire, and the police charge demonstrators. IMAGES
"France is angry", reads one protester's sign at the start of a march against pension reform in Paris, on the 10th day of nationwide action against President Macron's reform proposals. IMAGES
Members of the feminist movement "Les Rosies", dressed as Rosie the Riveter in her iconic blue overalls, start their choreography in the march in Paris against the pension reform, during the 9th day of national mobilisation. IMAGES
Firefighters extinguish a garbage fire in front of the Musée Grévin in Paris as clashes broke out in the capital after the rejection of two no-confidence motions in parliament. The rejections of the motions means that the reform to raise the pensions age from 62 to 64 has now been adopted by the legislature. IMAGES