French pension protesters occupy finance firm, torch restaurant favored by Macron

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The 11th day of nationwide strikes and protests over legislation to raise the retirement age by two years saw demonstrators targeting the investment firm BlackRock in Paris.

was a branch of Credit Agricole, which saw its windows smashed before police dispersed the rabble-rousers with tear gas.out on the Left Bank brasserie La Rotonde, where Macron hosted a celebratory dinner during the 2017 presidential election.

Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne met with union leaders Wednesday to try to break the impasse, but their talks broke up after just an hour without producing a solution. Protesters brandishing open umbrellas clashed with police in Nantes Thursday.A protester, displaying a French labur union General Confederation of Labour sticker and a Communist face mask, takes part in the 11th day of action in Montpellier, France.

Both the government and the demonstrators are looking to the Constructional Council – France’s highest constitutional authority – to deliver its ruling on the pension bill on April 14. Unions have said they were committed to carrying on with the protests until the government reverses course on the pension reform.About 400,000 people joined the protest in Paris Thursday, down from 450,000 the week before, the union CGT confirmed.

 

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They better not be protesting against ESG money!! That is a 'threat to democracy' and I think i'm going to use that tagline for a couple years. Vive la (peaceful) révolution Wouldn't Macron have to be sweating just a little? Time to dbl down on dogma with flames outside?

Just cut the retirement age to 50, then once the fund is out of money, tell the rest they can work until they die. All they would be doing is speeding up the process.

Heart goes out to the restaurant owner. 😞

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Lazy f*ckers - where’s the money coming from to pay your pension? they’ve taxed the big companies out of France in their greed for other people’s money and the consequence is that YOU are going to have to work a little longer and pay the tax to make up for it

Nobody protests as hard as the French.

Those poor French 🙄

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