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French Protesters Set Fires in Paris Amid Retirement Reform Strikes
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8:51Now PlayingSmall groups of protesters were hurling flares, smashing store windows and setting fires in eastern Paris amid mass strikes over the government’s retirement reform.
One of France's biggest trade unions said that major nationwide strikes which started on Thursday will continue into next week if necessary.
Speaking from Paris, Yves Veyrier of Force Ouvriere (Workers' Force) added: "if the mobilization for strikes and protests is massive today, the government will have to take it into account".
Unions launched open-ended, nationwide strikes on Thursday over the government's plan to overhaul the retirement system, shutting down transports hubs and even the Eiffel Tower.
Paris authorities barricaded the presidential palace and deployed 6,000 police, as activists - many in yellow vests representing France's year-old movement for economic justice - gathered in the capital in a mass outpouring of anger at President Emmanuel Macron and his centerpiece reform.
To Macron, the retirement reform is central to his plan to transform France so it can compete globally in the 21st century. The government argues France's 42 retirement systems need streamlining.
Unions and their supporters fear that the changes to how and when workers can retire will threaten the hard-fought French way of life. Macron himself remained "calm and determined" to push it through, according to a top presidential official.
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