USPA NEWS - France is in turmoil and a wind of anger or even reflection is blowing throughout the country, in position for the pension reform project, announced 10 days ago at the Council of Ministers. A large demonstration had already taken place on January 19, as well as strikes, totaling 1.12 million people according to the Minister of the Interior and 2 million according to trade union organizers. According to the organizers, the Intersyndicale, ie the grouping unions, CGT, CFT, FO, etc., the 8 major French unions, there were 2.8 million people in the streets throughout France, including 500,000 in Paris , and 1.27 million according to the Minister of the Interior in protest against the pension reform. Even small towns like those of Gueret (Center of France of 13,000 inhabitants) have manifest (1 inhabitant out of 2), one of the 250 bridge mobilizations in France.
The Parisian procession of strikers started in the early afternoon from Place d'Italie (13th arrondissement) or the town hall of Paris 13th, to Place Vauban.
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