Protesters opposing President Emmanuel Macron\u0027s unpopular plan to raise the retirement age to 64 marched Thursday in cities and towns around France
We apologize, but this video has failed to load.Fabien Villedieu of the Sud-Rail Union said LVMH “could reduce all the holes” in France’s social security system. “So one of the solutions to finance the pension system is a better redistribution of wealth, and the best way to do that is to tax the billionaires.”
Early on in the main Paris protest, security forces intervened to stop vandals damaging a shop, with 15 people detained, police said. Like in past protests, several hundred “radical elements” had mixed inside the march, police said. “The mobilization is far from over,” the leader of the leftist CGT union, Sophie Binet, said at a trash incineration site south of Paris where several hundred protesters blocked garbage trucks. “As long as this reform isn’t withdrawn, the mobilization will continue in one form or another.”
Protesters clash with police officers during a demonstration in Nantes, western France on April 13, 2023.
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