Fighting has once again broken out amid renewed protests against the government’s pension reform approved by the French Constitutional Council. In the capital Paris alone, 112 demonstrators were arrested on Friday evening and 30 rubbish bins were set on fire, the television station “BFMTV” reported, referring to the police prefect. There were also protests in a number of other cities such as Strasbourg, Lyon and Nantes and in Rennes the door of a police station was set on fire. There had already been rallies and roadblocks during the day.
France’s top constitutional guardians had judged President Emmanuel Macron’s reform plans to gradually raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 Friday night as essentially constitutional. The Constitutional Council declared inadmissible a referendum hoped for by opponents of the reform.
Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets against the plans in recent months. More protests are expected on Saturday. The unions called for new protest marches on May 1. (sda/dpa)
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