According to the TV channel, on Saturday, March 11, around 370,000 people attended demonstrations against raising the retirement age across France. BFMTVreferring to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic.
According to the agency, 368,000 protesters took part in nationwide protests and 48,000 in Paris.
According to the news that BFMTV bases on the governor’s office, on March 11, police detained 26 people during a protest against pension reform in the French capital.
It was noted that the grounds for detention included the presence of prohibited weapons and violence against law enforcement officers.
Former French Minister of Labor Olivier Dussaud requested He urged members of the Senate to vote on the full text of the pension reform bill, rather than discussing it separately.
In mid-January, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Born presented a project that plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 by 2030. The reform project also provides for the increase of the minimum pension to 1.2 thousand Euros and the abolition of some private pension regimes in various sectors. With words Born, the French government will no longer discuss raising the retirement age, raising the bar to 64 is a compromise.
On March 7, a wave of protests against raising the retirement age swept through France. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 1.2 million people attended them.