Tag: French
French strikers, marchers test Sarkozy on pensions
PARIS: Striking public sector workers disrupted travel across France on Tuesday and troublemakers piggybacked on protest marches to burn cars as opponents of the government's pension reform made a last-ditch bid to stop it.
Refinery workers, airport staff, train drivers, teachers, postal workers and armoured truck drivers who supply cash machines went on strike and students set off rowdy protests in a day of protests against a plan to raise the minimum retirement age to 62 from
Refinery workers, airport staff, train drivers, teachers, postal workers and armoured truck drivers who supply cash machines went on strike and students set off rowdy protests in a day of protests against a plan to raise the minimum retirement age to 62 from
French truckers block roads as anti-reform protests escalate
PARIS: French high school students clashed with riot police Monday, truckers blocked roads and filling stations ran out of fuel as protests escalated against plans to raise the retirement age to 62.
Police fired tear gas at youths who set a car on fire, smashed bus stops and hurled rocks outside a school in a Paris suburb blocked by students protesting against a move that is central to President Nicolas Sarkozy's reform agenda.
Youths threw petrol bombs at police outside a
Police fired tear gas at youths who set a car on fire, smashed bus stops and hurled rocks outside a school in a Paris suburb blocked by students protesting against a move that is central to President Nicolas Sarkozy's reform agenda.
Youths threw petrol bombs at police outside a
