In France, police fired tear gas and arrested several people today as thousands of yellow vest anti-government protesters returned to the streets of Paris.
Demonstrators shouted slogans denouncing the police, President Emmanuel Macron and his pension reforms that have triggered the longest French transport strike in decades.
This was the latest of the weekly demonstrations held every Saturday by the yellow vest movement since November 2018.
Police said, 15 people were arrested after they tried to disperse a bloc at the head of the protest in northern Paris.
The rallies came on the 45th day of a strike that has hit train and metro traffic and caused misery for millions of commuters in Paris.
President Macron’s reforms aim to forge a single pensions system from the country’s 42 separate regimes. According to the critics, the reforms will effectively force millions of people to work longer for a smaller pension.
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