The CGT trade union has estimated the nationwide protest number at 2 million, and the Paris participation at 400,000. In Paris, the ministry said some 80,000 people are estimated to have protested. 7:21pm: More than 1 million protesters across France, interior ministry saysĪround 1.12 million people are estimated to have taken part in France’s nationwide protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s contested pension reform, which will raise the retirement age from 62 to 64, the interior ministry said. Unions have called for new strikes and protests on January 31.Ĩ:25pm: French unions call for new nationwide strikes, protests on January 31įrench unions have announced new nationwide strikes and protests on January 31 against President Emmanuel Macron’s plans to raise the retirement age.Įight leading unions held a meeting Thursday after their first day of mass protests against the plan, and issued statements vowing to push on with their action to try to get the government to back down.More than a dozen people were arrested on the sidelines of the protest after members of the anarchist Black Bloc movement threw rubbish bins, bottles and smoke bombs at police.
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