First, France Had Riots and Protests. Now It’s Bracing for a General Strike.
What happened
Hundreds of thousands of people marched across France on Thursday as unions held a general strike over living costs and public service cuts.
Police used teargas in Bordeaux and Lyon, and in Paris stopped schoolchildren from building barricades from wheelie bins outside high schools.
The government said 81 high schools were blockaded, while student unions said about 1,000 were; a third of higher education sites were also affected.
Government spokeswoman Maud Bregeon said before the protests that reliving the riots of October 17 was out of the question.
“We are extremely vigilant because it is out of the question to relive October 17”
Cyprus Mail
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