by Margaret Flavin, The Gateway Pundit:
French President Emmanuel Macron has advocated increasing the retirement age in France from 62 to 64 and French citizens have been in an uproar.
Since mid-January, the country has faced repeated nationwide strikes and riot police have been dealing with increasing violence.
The French National Assembly rejected a vote of no-confidence against the Government of Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, in the aftermath of the massive protests.
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Macron was forced to appear on TV to ask for ‘calm’ from the population in late March to no avail. Protests, blockages and confrontations intensified as an estimated 3.5 million people took to the streets against Macron’s Pension Reform ‘by decree’.
On Friday, the despised reforms were approved by the Constitutional Council and large scale protests began almost immediately and turned violent.
Police used tear gas in Lyon and Strasbourg and water cannons in Paris to control the streets, while protesters set fires, built barricades and let off flares in the centre of the capital.
Officers were seen charging down streets in cities across France as they battled protesters angry about the reforms. In Nantes, a police station was briefly set on fire by rioters before being extinguished.
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