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Demonstration against the pension reform in Paris, December 10, 2019. Bertrand GUAY / AFP

Opponents of pension reform were again on the streets this Tuesday, December 10 everywhere in France, after the showdown of December 5.

" We are determined. Like thousands of opponents of the pension reform , Adel was back on the streets this Tuesday in Paris. " This reform project, it is punitive, judge it at the microphone of our reporter Altin Lazaj . It is not good for anyone, whether it is the employees of the private sector or the public. So yes, we are fighting him. There is nothing to negotiate. [The government] withdraws its project, and we start on a good basis. It's better to have a strike that lasts two, three weeks or a month, and have a decent retirement, than to go to work today and be poor retiree tomorrow. "

Several hundred demonstrators are gathered in the street in Invalides, in the center of Paris, observes our journalist on the spot. And this, despite a massive strike that paralyzes transport . Vincent, 32, made the trip from Marx Dormoy, in the 18th district, more than six kilometers. " I thought it was a good idea to take bus 38 ... I was wrong. We were too tight, it was hell. I ended up going down to finish on foot. " He sighs. " I should have taken my skateboard. "

If the thirty-year-old agrees that the transport strike " may deter some, " he says he is " determined " to bring his claims. " The protests are just support for the strikers. The real movement, the one that can win, is the strike. "He who has been demonstrating with the" yellow vests "since the beginning of the movement claims a fight" which crystallizes many fringes of the population insecure by the government, and which has incredibly radicalized in its ultraliberal policy . "

Towards a broadening of the challenge?

An inter-union is planned at the end of the demonstration between CGT-FO and FSU. A new day of mobilization this Thursday is already in reflection. The government is also facing a risk of widening the challenge.

The police unions, in particular, intend to tighten their action from Wednesday if the government does not provide guarantees for the defense of their specific retirement plan.

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