The effervescence remains France because of the mobilizations for the pension reform that the government is trying to pass without a vote in the National Assemblyas violent clashes in Paris between police and protesters continued for a third night.
Intervention de la Brav M dans le 13eme arrondissement de Paris follow à une manifestation sauvage contre la réforme des retraits.#ReformedesRetraite pic.twitter.com/u5a9zfdWBt
— Amar Taoualit (@TaoualitAmar) March 18, 2023
“Macron, resign” and “Macron will break, we will win” were the slogans chanted by the crowd in the Place d’Itali, in southern Paris. The police used tear gas and clashed with some groups of protesters who set trash cans on fire.
🚨🇫🇷ALERT INFO – Les tensions persistent sur la Place d’Italie à #Paris au milieu des gaz lacrymogène et des mortars d’artifices. pic.twitter.com/wB5HVAT4Ab
— AlertesInfos (@AlertesInfos) March 18, 2023
The municipal authorities banned gatherings on the central Place de la Concorde and the neighboring Champs-Élyséesafter two consecutive nights of riots in the French capital which led to 61 arrests.
🗣 “Je ne regrette pas que le sujet des retraits puisses continuer à avancer”, affirms the deputy of the majority, Prisca Thévenot
(@priscathevenot) pic.twitter.com/9VW6MOXRGc— BFMTV (@BFMTV) March 18, 2023
On Saturday night, in the French capital, a a group of students and activists from the collective “Permanent Revolution” entered the Forum des Halles shopping center, urged people to go on a general strike and shouted “Paris, rise up”.
🇫🇷 Wild demonstration in progress in the streets of Paris from the Place d’Italie. Burned barricades. Already several police charges pic.twitter.com/A9pXS9y99u
— 𝙶𝙶𝙸 𝙶𝙶𝙸𝙸𝙸𝙸 (@72powpow) March 18, 2023
A rally was also held in Lyon, which had to be ended at the request of the mayor due to the presence of “hostile groups”. There were also incidents with the police using tear gas.
🔴 Un groupe empêche les pompiers d’éteindre un feu sur la Place d’Italie. #Act3
Charge de la BRAVM. Tensions à #Paris. pic.twitter.com/j03HfZ5S6D
— Clément Lanot (@ClementLanot) March 18, 2023
Source: News Beast

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