Eiffel Tower shut as chaotic strike sweeps through Paris | IOL News

Riot police officers secure an area during a demonstration in Paris on Thursday. AP Photo / Thibault Camus.People gather during a demonstration in Paris on Thursda. AP Photo/Rafael Yaghobzadeh.Youths throw items at police forces during a demonstration in Paris. AP Photo/Thibault Camus.AP Photo/Thibault Camus.AP Photo/Thibault Camus.

Small groups of masked activists smashed store windows, set fires and hurled flares on the sidelines of the otherwise peaceful Paris march, prompting volleys of tear gas from police in body armor. Unions launched the open-ended, nationwide strikes Thursday over President Emmanuel Macron’s centerpiece reform in the biggest challenge to the centrist leader since the yellow vest movement against economic inequality erupted a year ago.

Opponents fear the changes to how and when workers can retire will threaten the hard-fought French way of life. Macron himself remained “calm and determined” to push it through, according to a top presidential official.

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