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(28 Mar 2023)
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Paris - 28 March 2023
1. Riot police rushing onto main road in Paris
2. Mid of riot police standing as red flare smoke billows
3. Pan of riot police as projectiles fly towards them and explosions heard
4. Mid of police talking with protester
5. People running to the side of the street with riot police in background
6. Fire burning
7. Firefighter putting out fire
STORYLINE:
A large number of riot police deployed in Paris on Tuesday as protests and strikes against unpopular pension reforms gripped France again.

Concerns that violence could mar the large demonstrations prompted what Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin described as an unprecedented deployment of 13,000 officers, nearly half of them concentrated in the French capital.

Demonstrations got underway peacefully Tuesday morning, with large crowds in multiple cities, and striking workers temporarily blocked access to Paris' Gare de Lyon train station by staging a march along railway tracks.

But into the afternoon, police in central Paris were seen being pelted with projectiles, as fireworks exploded.

The wave of protests marked the 10th time since January that unions have called on workers to walk out and for demonstrators to flood the nation’s streets against President Emmanuel Macron’s retirement changes, which raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.

His government argues that France’s pension system will dive into deficit without reform, because of the lower birth rates and longer life expectancy in many richer nations.

Macron’s opponents say additional funding for pensions could come from other sources, without having to make workers retire later.

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