Protesters occupy the Paris Stock Exchange in protest of Macron’s pension reform

2023-04-20 17:31:15

France persists in protests over pension reform. On the 13th day of the strike, hundreds of Protesters broke into the ‘hall’ on Thursday entrance of the offices of the stock exchange operator Euronext NV in the business district of La Defense, on the outskirts of Paris.

With flares and banners, several hundred protesters stormed the building of the Parisian Stock Exchange manager at noon this Thursday. The thirteenth mobilization is produced by the decision of the French president, Emmanuel Macron, to increase the minimum age from 62 to 64 years. With the pension reform already approved and validated by the Constitutional Council, the next big protest is called to next May 1st.

On the other hand, this same Thursday there were booing and even throwing eggs at the French president for the second day in a row while traveling outside Paris to promote reconciliation and reconnect with the public after the crisis over the pension reform. After the complicated passage through Alsace (northeast) on Wednesday, Macron traveled this Thursday to the department of Hérault (southeast) with an agenda focused on education and accompanied by the minister of that portfolio, Pap Ndiaye.

Security measures were increased to control the passage of protesters and the prefecture (government delegation) of Hérault even went so far as to prohibitr “the use of portable sound devices” -without adding precise details about the nature of these items- or that “emanate from unauthorized vehicles”. That measure was imposed after opponents of the pension reform have been calling pots and pans to express their discontent.

This Thursday, in the small town of Ganges, where he was received by local authorities and visited an educational center, Macron assured that it is normal for “anger to be expressed” and that he did not expect anything else, but that will not “prevent” him from continuing to travel. for France. The president said he was open to talking to people, “but if only are willing to throw things or make noise is not worth it“.