Protesters throw projectiles at police at Paris pension protest

Record ID: 1717572

  • Title: Protesters throw projectiles at police at Paris pension protest
  • Date: 28th March 2023
  • Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (MARCH 28, 2023) (REUTERS) PROTESTERS THROWING STONES AND WOODEN PROJECTILES AT RIOT POLICE WITH SHIELDS, POLICE RETREATING / SOME POLICE OFFICERS CHARGING POLICE CARRYING SHIELDS, USING PEPPER SPRAY TEAR GAS GOING OFF, PROTESTERS KICKING CANNISTERS PROTESTERS AND LINE OF RIOT POLICE MAN SHOUTING AND GESTURING AT POLICE PROTESTERS AMID TEAR GAS AND BLACK RUBBISH FIRE SMOKE TEAR GAS BEING FIRED AT PROTESTERS VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS WALKING, RUNNING AMID RUBBISH FIRE SMOKE PROTESTER DRESSED AS JESUS CHRIST AND CARRYING MOCK CROSS WALKING BY RUBBISH FIRE VARIOUS OF TRASH BINS BURNING IN STREET RIOT POLICE WALKING RIOT POLICE ORDERING PEOPLE TO STEP BACK PROTESTERS STANDING AT DAMAGED BUS STOP VARIOUS OF LINE OF POLICE AROUND FIRE POLICE WALKING, PROTESTERS RUNNING, TRASH CAN BURNING
  • Embargoed: 11th April 2023 17:13
  • Keywords: France pension reform police projectiles protest scuffles tear gas
  • Location: PARIS, FRANCE
  • City: PARIS, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Europe,Civil Unrest
  • Reuters ID: LVA001098928032023RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Protesters threw stones and projectiles at riot police at a Paris pension reform protest turned tense on Tuesday (March 28), with officers firing tear gas to disperse the tense crowd.
    The Paris march led by unions had largely been peaceful in the beginning, but some protesters dressed in black clothing smashed the front windows of a store and started a garbage fire on the street.
    Tens of thousands marched in the streets of the French capital on Tuesday to denounce President Emmanuel Macron's push to raise the retirement age by two years to 64, which was passed in parliament without a vote.
    Millions of people have been demonstrating and joining strike action since mid-January to show their opposition to Macron's plans.
    Most demonstrations have been peaceful, although the presence of “black bloc” protesters in Paris protests has led to several consecutive nights of clashes with police last week.
    Tuesday's protests have so far not been as violent as last Thursday's (March 23).
    Macron, who promised to deliver a pensions system reform in both of his presidential campaigns, says the reform is needed to keep the country's finances in balance. Unions and opposition parties say there are other ways to do that.
    (Production: Yiming Woo, Marco Trujillo, Antony Paone, Horaci Garcia, Ardee Napolitano)
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