"We Can't Live with High Prices"… 600,000 French Workers and Students Protest
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(Seoul=Yonhap News) Major French labor unions and student groups took to the streets again on the 5th (local time) to protest poor public sector services and high prices...
When it has passed an hour from the beginning of the procession, in place de la République in Paris we still do not move. "We are too many people," says a guy who waves a sign with the inscription "Tax the rich." Students, workers, trade unionists, precarious: people lean on each other and try to advance. Boulevard Voltaire explodes with people: [...] The article Paris, the protest of high school students becomes social revolt: "The wealth must …
For its first big meeting after the holidays, the high school and student movement took advantage of the help of the unions to sign a show of strength.
Around 600,000 people participated in demonstrations throughout France this Thursday, reported the French television channel BFM TV which cited an initial estimate from the French Ministry of the Interior. However, the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) estimates that about 1.6 million people participated in the demonstrations of this day, including 350,000 in Paris, reported BFM TV.
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