French police crack down on demonstrators at mass pension protests, more than eighty arrests in Paris

81 people were arrested on Saturday evening in riots on the Place d’Italie in Paris. That says a police source to AFP news agency. It is already the third consecutive evening of tension in the French capital, following the French government’s decision to push through its pension reform outside parliament. The reform allows for an increase in the retirement age from 62 to 64.

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