Over 1m people have marched against President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to raise the retirement age from 62 years to 64. Why are the French so angry?
on in France? A night of rioting on March 23rd saw 903 acts of arson in Paris, as bins overflowing with uncollected, stinking rubbish were torched. In Bordeaux rioters set the town-hall door alight. Across France, 457 people were arrested and 441 policemen andThe violence came at the end of a day-long national strike, the ninth since the start of the year. More than 1m people marched against President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to raise the retirement age from 62 years to 64.
Not only would the practical challenges of organising such a visit have been hairy, so would the symbolism. Among other events, Mr Macron was to have hosted the king at a banquet at the former royal palace of Versailles, home to Louis XVI, the last French monarch of pre-revolutionary France, before he was guillotined. “The French people know how to frighten all monarchs.
Yet the anger in France goes beyond this. Some of it has sharpened into violence, as hardcore agitators join political protesters in acts of wilful destruction, often aimed at symbols of the state. The fury is directed above all against the way that the legislation was forced through parliament. Mr Macron decided to
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