Rail workers stormed the building of US financial firm BlackRock in Paris earlier today holding red flares and shooting smoke bombs.
His roads Paris again filled with protestors against the Macron government’s pension reform that increases the retirement age from 62 to 64 years.
🔴 Les cheminots envahissent la multinationale #BlackRock against the reform of pensions. #strike6avril pic.twitter.com/L4wxsR025E
— Clément Lanot (@ClementLanot) April 6, 2023
Railroad workers stormed the American Financial Building earlier today blackrock company, in Paris.
Videos and photos that have emerged show protesters entering the Le Centorial office building, located near the Opéra Garnier, holding red flares and shooting smoke bombs. About 100 people, including representatives of several labor unions, were on the ground floor of the building for about 10 minutes, shouting anti-reform slogans. BlackRock’s office is on the third floor.
Tremble macron, tremble black rock 🤡pic.twitter.com/tBsO359CKh
— Sainteté pépé (@SaintetePepe) April 6, 2023
“The meaning of this action is very simple. We went to the headquarters of BlackRock to tell them: the workers’ money, for our pensions, is being taken.” Jerome Schmitt, a spokesman for the French union SUD, told CNN’s BFM-TV.
Nationwide protests against the French government’s plan to raise the retirement age continue for an 11th day. At least 80 people were arrested and 123 police officers were injured during protests on March 23, in which protesters set fires, threw smoke bombs and destroyed property. At the same time, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, is making an official visit to Beijing.
Source :Skai
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