Face-off between police, protesters at tense Paris pension reform demo

Record ID: 1717256

  • Title: Face-off between police, protesters at tense Paris pension reform demo
  • Date: 23rd March 2023
  • Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (MARCH 23, 2023) (REUTERS) PROJECTILES AND FLARE BEING THROWN AT POLICE / POLICE CHARGING VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS LAUNCHING BACK TEAR GAS CANISTERS TOWARD POLICE TEAR GAS SMOKE MAN STANDING AMID TEAR GAS SMOKE, HOLDING SIGN THAT READS (French): "I want a psychiatric exam for Emmanuel Macron" POLICE RUNNING, TEAR GAS GOING OFF TEAR GAS GOING OFF VARIOUS OF CROWD AMID SMOKE POLICE WALKING AS FIREWORKS THROWN PROTESTERS LAUNCHING PROJECTILES AND FIREWORKS AT POLICE PROTESTERS RUNNING AMID TEAR GAS SMOKE POLICE WALKING WITH ARRESTED MAN FIRETRUCK ARRIVING ON SITE FIREFIGHTERS EXTINGUISHING FIRE ON ROAD VIEW OF SACRE COEUR BASILICA VARIOUS OF CROWD CHEERING FOR PROTESTING FIREFIGHTERS BROKEN SIGNBOARD AT BUS STATION WITH TEXT READING (French): "No withdrawal, no peace" POLICE IN RIOT GEAR BLOCKING ACCESS TO BURNING PILE OF TRASH IN ROAD VARIOUS OF RIOT POLICE WALKING
  • Embargoed: 6th April 2023 17:45
  • Keywords: France Montmartre firefighters pension reform protest tear gas
  • Location: PARIS, FRANCE
  • City: PARIS, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Europe,Civil Unrest
  • Reuters ID: LVA001978723032023RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:Police on Thursday (March 23) fired tear gas during a protest in Paris as part of a day of demonstrations across France against President Emmanuel Macron and his plan to raise the pension age.
    In central Paris, where a demonstration had been mainly peaceful, police used tear gas after protesters threw projectiles and set bins ablaze.
    Small groups of "Black Bloc" anarchists were seen among the protesters. Unions fear that protests could turn more violent if there continues to be no political response from the government.
    Protests against the new law, which raises the pension age by two years to 64 and accelerates a planned increase in the number of years one must work to draw a full pension, have drawn huge crowds in rallies organized by unions since January.
    Since then, the past seven nights have seen demonstrations in Paris and other cities with rubbish bins set ablaze and clashes with police.
    Opinion polls have long shown that a majority of voters were opposed to delaying retirement age.
    (Production: Antony Paone, Noemie Olive, Horaci Garcia, Clotaire Achi, Ardee Napolitano)
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