Paris police clash with demonstrators for a third night as thousands of people march throughout the country amid anger at the government pushing through a rise in the state pension age without a parliamentary vote.
BFM television also showed images of demonstrations underway in cities such as Compiegne in the north, Nantes in the west and Marseille in the south. In Bordeaux, in the south-west, police also used tear gas against protesters who had started a fire.
Soumaya Gentet, 51, a CGT union member from supermarket chain Monoprix, said she was angry and would continue to protest until the bill was revoked.Her colleague Lamia Kerrouzi agreed."He doesn't understand the language of the people. It needs to be repealed." But the 45-year-old centrist lost his parliamentary majority in June after elections for the lower-house National Assembly.
The move amounted to an admission the cabinet lacked a majority in the lower house to make the changes, despite appealing to the right-wing opposition Republicans party for support.
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