French Police Clash with Protesters in France Demanding Higher Wages

In Paris, dozens of black-clad protesters have clashed with police and smashed shop windows. That’s during a demonstration calling for wage hikes. As for high inflation, as we were just discussing here in the UK they’re also seeing that in France is eating away at ordinary citizens’ purchasing power.

According to the interior ministry in France, 11 people were arrested just in the French capital. And more than 100,000 people nationwide answered a call from left-wing parties and some trade unions to go out onto the streets to demonstrate, including 13,000 By one estimated in capital according to one trade union in France, they’re saying that 70,000 people took part in that March just in Paris just in the French capital.

Now as the tension started to rise over the course of the day police then charged at protesters. Meanwhile, workers at several oil refineries and depots that are operated by the energy giants total energies, voted to extend a strike that’s now in its third week in the city of nonce hospital staff, social educators, students, and workers from other sectors are also demonstrating take a lesson.

They are especially angry that is to say in front of all this loss of purchasing power. There is no answer from this government just to say that people are only that block. But the real demand of the people who are in the street at the moment is the purchasing power and the salary increase. said the student precariousness is a real problem.

And their goal is really to fight against it. And even if you use this demonstration as support, their goal is to really fight for a better life for students with, for example, a salary for students.

Now, these demonstrations have caused few disruptions in the transport networks but unions are vowing to take further action to protest against president Emmanuel Macron.

In the coming weeks, this all coming in the middle of a Europe-wide energy crisis. And the strikes are now becoming the President’s stiffest challenge since his reelection as French President earlier this year.