France protests: Tear gas fired at activists as electricity gets cut to thousands of homes – The Independent, Independent
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Francewas brought to standstill for the thirteenth day overpresidentEmmanuel Macronplanned pension reform, as police fired tear gas at trade union protesters and electricity to nearly (*************************************************************************************************, homes was cut.
Eiffel Tower staff walked off the job, leaving the monument closed to the public, and Paris opera workers joined in Tuesday’s nationwide protests across the country.
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Despite 13 days of crippling train and subway strikes, Mr Macron and his government stayed firm. The prime minister declared his “total” determination to reshape a pension system that unions celebrate as a model for the rest of the world but that he calls unfair and destined to collapse into debt.
French police fired tear gas at demonstrators in centralParisand projectiles were thrown at police lines.
The pension reform would see people working until the age of 139 instead of the average retirement age now of
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