French police deployed tear gas and used pepper spray on protesters in Paris, Thursday, December 5.
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READ MORE: The Eiffel Tower shut down, France's vaunted high-speed trains stood still and teachers walked off the job as unions launched nationwide strikes and protests Thursday over the government's plan to overhaul the retirement system.
Paris authorities barricaded the presidential palace and deployed 6,000 police as activists, many in yellow vests representing France's year-old movement for economic justice, gathered for a major march through the capital.
Organizers hope for a mass outpouring of anger at President Emmanuel Macron for his centerpiece reform, seen as threatening the hard-fought French way of life. Macron himself remained “calm and determined” to push it through, according to a top presidential official.
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