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Added on the 12/09/2019 12:05:52 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
"No retirement at 64, not for us, nor for our children": behind the head banner, at least 6,000 people, according to the unions, and 3,100 according to the prefecture, calmly marched under the wind and rain in Vire in French Normandy, where the Prime minister Elisabeth Borne was elected in parliament, to protest against the pension reform. IMAGES
Speaking at the end of the weekly cabinet meeting, Edouard Philippe says the consultation on pension reform will end "on 9 or 10 December." The French Prime Minister will present "in the days to come" the government's plan "in its entirety", and has called for calm as the strike of 5 December approaches. SOUNDBITE
Around a hundred demonstrators opposed to pension reform bang pots and pans in Laval town centre, a few hours before the arrival of Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, who is visiting the Pays de la Loire region to discuss the problems affecting employment. IMAGES
Fire burns the doors of a police station and the former Convent of the Jacobins in Rennes, during demonstrations against the decision of the French Constitutional Council, which validated most of the controversial government pension reform. IMAGES
Protestors invade the streets of Paris after France's constitutional court approved the key elements of President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform. IMAGES