French Fury: Violent protests bring France to near standstill
Angry protesters took to the streets in Paris and other cities for a second day on Friday trying to pressure lawmakers to bring down French president Emmanuel Macron’s government’s highly unpopular bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 without a vote
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Angry protesters took to the streets in Paris and other cities for a second day on Friday, trying to pressure lawmakers to bring down French President Emmanuel Macron’s government and doom the unpopular retirement age increase he’s trying to impose without a vote in the National Assembly. AP
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A day after Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne invoked a special constitutional power to skirt a vote in the chaotic lower chamber, lawmakers on the right and left filed no-confidence motions to be voted on Monday. AP
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At the elegant Place de Concorde, a festive protest by several thousand, with chants, dancing and a huge bonfire, degenerated into a scene echoing the night before. AP
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Riot police charged and threw tear gas to empty the huge square across from the National Assembly after troublemakers climbed scaffolding on a renovation site, arming themselves with wood. They lobbed fireworks and paving stones at police in a standoff. AP
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On Thursday night, security forces charged and used water cannons to evacuate the area, and small groups then set street fires in chic neighbourhoods nearby. AP
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French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin told radio station RTL that 310 people were arrested overnight, most of them in Paris. AP
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Mostly small, scattered protests were held in cities around France, from a march in Bordeaux to a rally in Toulouse. Port officers in Calais temporarily stopped ferries from crossing the English Channel to Dover. AP
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Some university campuses in Paris were blocked and protesters occupied a high-traffic ring road around the French capital. AP
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Macron took a calculated risk ordering Borne to invoke a special constitutional power that she had used 10 times before without triggering such an outpouring of anger. AP
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