The French president's highly-contested proposals to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 have been met with fierce protests since the beginning of the year.
Violent pension protests in France
The unions and ordinary workers are loud and angry as they traipse the streets in a march which winds through iconic landmarks. Then at the end, the hardcore of demonstrators - the so-called 'Black Bloc' - appears to take over and take on the riot police.What happens next is almost like choreographed theatre. The protesters throw missiles like rocks and bottles and the police push forward to repel them.
After sporadic clashes for hours, it's the last stand of the day taken outside the new Opera House - aptly in the Place de la Bastille which was the backdrop to the French Revolution. As night fell things quietened down. With such a significant decision expected on Friday it may well be the calm before the storm.
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