Police said 15 people were arrested.
Image: Xinhua News Agency/PA Images Image: Xinhua News Agency/PA Images FRENCH POLICE FIRED tear gas under a rain of projectiles and arrested several people Saturday as thousands of “yellow vest” anti-government protesters returned to the streets of Paris.
This was the latest of the weekly demonstrations held every Saturday by the yellow vest movement since November 2018, and which have been boosted by opposition to the pension reforms. “It’s out of the question that he touches our pensions. We have worked all our lives to be able to leave with a dignified retirement,” she said. “It’s exactly that that he is challenging.”
Trains are becoming more frequent however, and Paris’s metro drivers voted to suspend their action from Monday, their union Unsa announce Saturday.The various systems currently in place offer early retirement and other benefits to some public-sector workers as well as lawyers, physical therapists and even Paris Opera employees.
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