France's government unfurled ramped-up security measures and warnings that violent demonstrators intend “to destroy, to injure and to kill" as trade unions launched a new flurry of marches and strikes Tuesday against pension reforms that have triggered an intense months-long firestorm of protest.
Fears that violence could mar demonstrations planned across the country prompted what Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin described as an unprecedented deployment of 13,000 officers, nearly half of them concentrated in the French capital.
