The French government has prepared 11,000 police and gendarmes to guard the demonstrations called for Tuesday by the unions, which have called for a new day of strike to protest the pension reform.
The security contingent prepared on this occasion raises by 1,000 troops the deployment of January 19, when all the major unions made a common front against a reform that proposes, among other measures, to raise the retirement age to 64 years.
In Paris alone, some 4,000 agents will be deployed this Tuesday, explained to the media the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, who is confident that the new mobilizations will take place «without serious incidents» and that the legitimate right to strike and demonstrate will be respected.
The first day of strikes was a success for the trade unions, which managed to bring more than 1.1 million people to the streets of different cities, according to the official data of the Ministry of the Interior. The organizers of the marches even speak of more than two million.
For this Tuesday, new affectations are foreseen in transportation, as well as in public education or in industrial facilities such as refineries, in line with what already happened a week and a half ago.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
