While the police used tear gas, clashes broke out yesterday (Tuesday) in Paris between the police and a group of hundreds of demonstrators who were leading a march in which tens of thousands of protesters participated in the amendment of the retirement system and the delay of the retirement age by two years, to become 64 years.
And French media reported that the police used tear gas and batons to disperse the members of this group, some of whom covered their faces with masks and wore black clothes, indicating that the police resorted to violence against them after they stormed a grocery store and set fire to a garbage container before the protest march reached the square. No Nation.
And the Paris police headquarters stated that the security forces fired tear gas to disperse the demonstration and allow firefighting teams to intervene and facilitate the progress of the march, noting that the number of those arrested at 6 pm (Tuesday) reached 22 people.
The Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanian, said: 13,000 police and gendarmerie forces, including 5,500 in Paris, were mobilized on the tenth day of the protests over reforming the pension system, indicating that more than half a million demonstrators participated in the protests erupting in French cities, but the unions confirm The crowd is more than two million demonstrators across France.
The government said that the retirement bill is necessary so that the system does not go bankrupt, while unions and protesters believe that there are other ways to achieve this goal.
The unions have asked Macron to withdraw the bill or suspend it for a while to calm things down, although the law has not yet been published and is pending review by the Constitutional Council.
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