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France Stages Nationwide Strike as Protests Confront Massive Security Deployment
Over 1 million people protested austerity plans including pension reforms, with 80,000 police deployed and 181 arrests reported, marking the largest union-led strike since 2023.
- French protesters staged a nationwide strike on September 18, 2025, against President Emmanuel Macron's budget policies, with clashes reported in Paris and Marseille.
- The Interior Ministry estimated that around 800,000 people participated in the protests, while protest organizers claimed the number exceeded one million.
- More than 80,000 police were deployed to manage the protests amid concerns of potential violence from radicalized protesters infiltrating the demonstrations.
- Protesters, including schoolchildren, blocked schools and public transport, emphasizing their discontent with government fiscal plans while demanding an end to austerity measures and a more equitable budget policy.
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Paris. Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated yesterday throughout France as trade unions staged a day of strike to pressure and demand the new prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, to abandon the “austerity” policy in the budget for 2026, increase taxes on ultra-rurals and improve wages, pensions and public services.
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Hundreds of thousands of people protested and striked the government's austerity plans nationwide on Thursday in France.
France hit by massive strike as up to a million out to fight budget cuts
Hundreds of thousands of people took part in anti-austerity protests across France yesterday, urging president Emmanuel Macron and his new prime minister Sebastien Lecornu to acknowledge their anger and scrap looming budget cuts.
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