Police gear up for march of hundreds of thousands in Paris as anger grows over president’s ‘arrogance’
Emmanuel Macron was expected to feel the full force of French anger on Thursday as protesters gathered across the country to demonstrate their opposition to the pension age being raised from 62 to 64.
Since then, Macron’s administration has narrowly survived a vote of no confidence – by nine votes – but the way the law was passed has inflamed the public mood.and were gearing up for a massive turnout of hundreds of thousands of people at the main march in Paris. Along the route from Bastille to the opera house, the main east-west axis across the north of the city, shops, banks and businesses were boarded up early in the morning and vanloads of police and gendarmes stationed along roads.
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