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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

13 people held in France in gas-meter pension protest dump

Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

French police say they arrested 13 people after gas and power meters were strewn Monday outside a government building in an unusual trade union demonstration against unpopular pension reforms.

The act of disobedience in the southern city of Marseille comes amid an uproarious climate of protest in France sparked by President Emmanuel Macron's push to increase the French retirement age from 62 to 64.

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