Latest police balance sheet
At least 138 people were arrested last Friday during protests in France against the decision of the Constitutional Council to endorse the law on pension reform enacted early this morning by French President Emmanuel Macron, according to the latest balance of the French police. Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
More violent in Rennes
Three of them have been arrested during particularly virulent protests in the city of Rennes, where demonstrators burned the facade of a police station and the door of the Jacobins convent, although these arrests are not directly related to these two incidents.
More protests expected today
The locality will again be the scene of a new «high-risk» protest starting at 14.00, according to sources from the territorial intelligence services to the BFMTV channel.
Pelligious elements
Police anticipate no fewer than 500 people at the site, more than half of them considered to be «dangerous elements,» according to French authorities.
Retirement age increases
The promulgation already appears in the Official Journal of the French Republic, the official gazette of the French State, with the sentence «in the first paragraph (of the retirement rule), the word ‘sixty-two’ is replaced by the word ‘sixty-four'».
The most controversial point
Thus, France officially raises its retirement age, the point that had generated the most controversy among the unions.
Macron’s signature
From the Elysee it had already been pointed out that only the approval of the Constitutional Council was needed to take the next step and for Macron to stamp his signature, in a move that symbolizes a step forward for the Executive after weeks of protests in the streets of France.
Criticism from trade unions
The main French unions have criticized the enactment in the middle of the night of President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform, calling these circumstances «contempt» for the protests.
