A new wave of pension protest breaks out in France as police brace for violence
Fears that violence could mar the demonstrations against President Macron's unpopular pension reforms has led to deployment of 13,000 officers, nearly half of them concentrated in the French capital.
by The Associated Press
Mar 28, 2023
2 minutes
Updated March 28, 2023 at 9:48 AM ET
PARIS — Protests and strikes against unpopular pension reforms gripped France again Tuesday, with many thousands marching and the Eiffel Tower closed and police ramping up security amid government warnings that radical demonstrators intended "to destroy, to injure and to kill."
Concerns that violence could mar the demonstrations prompted what Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin described as an unprecedented deployment of
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