Pension reform controversy sparks violent clashes across France



Protesters battled with police in several French cities as President Macron stuck to his controversial plan to raise the national retirement age, despite public and parliamentary opposition.

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  1. The real motivation of the reform seems to stem from the need to compensate government expenditures during the Covid. It also wants to pursue its fiscal policy of reducing taxes levied against big companies in the hope of a trickle down effect. Whether it will have a long term perceptible and real positive effect on the people is a different question. The real issue at hand is that majority of the people are suffering from the current inflation (food, oil and energy) due partly to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Asking common people, who can barely make both ends meet before the end of each month to make some more sacrifice for the common good while wealthy stockholders debate on where to invest their money to buy more buildings, yatch or spend 2 months vacationing in a lavish island paradise is just plainly immoral and indecent. The inequitable distribution of wealth is not tolerated in France and judging from its History, violence is a price to pay.

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  3. Odd none of my liberal wannabe communist friends in the USA are talking about this.

    Still all on black lives matter

  4. LONG LIVE PUTIN‼️‼️‼️ URAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

  5. The elites shall be held accountable…long live Liberty and the French revolutionary spirit.

  6. Everyone else needs to follow suit. We have no rights. They are taking everything away from us.

  7. Companies act like drug dealers these days.. Get ya hooked or dependent and then PRICE GOUGE!!! HIKE HIKE!!! 200% Now ya cant retire? Work til we die?

  8. IF THEY DON'T TREAT US AS A HUMAN  , PERISH TOGETHER. Peoples protested for democratic to the violate policy. Nation owned by citizens, not government. We will be communisized. Who is using "social security" This excuse to oppress the peoples? Democracy die in darkness.

  9. I doubt this would happen if the French politicians and police had the same national retirement age as the people instead of a special pension that allows them to retire at 60 or sometimes even less!

  10. As a Spaniard I'm proud of the french,Somebody has to stand up to these tyrants. The Police and politicians are all the same side of the corrupt coin.

  11. Would be interesting to see demographics and religion of people involved in this mess in France.

  12. Calm down everyone, wait till the police start firing live bullets into the protesters.

  13. You mean to tell me that this terrorist/colonial country, for all you ripped off Africa and Haiti, you don't have enough money to pay you aging population??? All those centuries of theft you don't have enough??? Told you: EVIL NEVER WINS!!!!!

  14. GO FRANCE GO !
    Comments turned off to avoid contagion !
    In the USA you have to DIE to get your full pension (new age to retire 70). In the USA why pensioners don't demonstrate because either they are DEAD or TERMINALLY SICK without money !?! 😅😂😅

  15. The French Police are getting what they have been dishing out. The World stands behind the French people against Dictator Macron

  16. Well done! I guess French people want to retire at time, and they don't want work more to pay taxes to Ukrainian neonazis government! Do Brits, Americans and Germans want to do the same?

  17. Macron is acting like a King. And that might not be allowed to stand. 70+% of the French don't want this. So we'll see.

  18. Very civil country so called first world!

  19. The French protesters stand up for their hard-won civil rights. Our rights are our rights. Rights are NOT favors from the government. The stormtroopers of totalitarian EU WEF government are beating up the people. The govt is a hungry animal that wants to control and subjugate the people. The WEF elites want to take all our rights, all our welfare and turn us all into slaves. They are coming for us. And the handcuffs are CBDC + Digital passports. They want Obedient, Isolated, Atomized wokers and consumers.

  20. The protesters are a bunch of cowards for hiding behind masks.

  21. Usa companies pay no taxes

  22. Pensions is just the straw that broke the camel's back, he has been raping the French people for six years, the little rothschild man. Revolution is our culture, our blood. Even our national anthem is a revolutionary song. We inspired the first American revolution, why not the second? We don't have guns, but we know how can heads easily fall off.

  23. Aux armes, citoyens,

    Formez vos bataillons

    Marchons, marchons !

    Qu’un sang impur

    Abreuve nos sillons !

  24. I happen to be born in Morocco during the French occupation, making my birth nationality, French…My King of King Brothers is, Legion D'Hounor, a grave mistake by
    Macro( I use the slang term)

  25. Toutes mes pensées vont aux familles des assureurs.

  26. Good on them…here in Australia its 67… and the sheep here took it lying down. Good on the French for fighting back. Enough is enough.