More than 800,000 demonstrators marched on
cities throughout France today, with railway workers, teachers and
hospital staff joining the largest strike in decades.
Authorities
in Paris barricaded the presidential palace and deployed some 6,000
police as activists, many in yellow vests, gathered for a major
march aimed at forcing President Emmanuel Macron to abandon his pension
reform plans.
Officers were forced to
use tear gas to disperse rioters who set fire to a vehicle and smashed
windows as tensions heightened close to the Place de la Republique
square.
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