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France announces massive police mobilization

An extra 13,000 state cops will be deployed to counter nationwide protests, the interior minister has announced: French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has ordered 13,000 police officers into the streets of France’s major cities as protests against the government’s controversial pension reforms continue. Darmanin said that he is expecting ’radical activists’ from abroad to instigate violence at the demonstrations but declined to reveal the source.

France in Flames as protests said to be out of control

Police clashed with over a million demonstrators opposed to President Macron’s pension reform. French authorities struggled on Thursday to suppress the protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform. Over a million demonstrators took to the streets across the country in what some security sources described as an ’insurrection’ against the government in Paris.

France in turmoil: Police used tear gas on protesters in Paris as Le Pen calls for Resignations

On March 16, the French authorities decided to carry out a pension reform project in the country  without a vote  in the lower house on the basis of the 49th article of the French constitution, which gives the executive branch the right to adopt any law without the consent of the deputies. Deputies of the National Assembly because of this  demanded the resignation  of Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne.