The Louvre in Paris reopened normally on Saturday morning after being blocked the day before by strikers opposed to the pension reform project, said its management.
The most visited museum in the world opened its doors at 9 a.m., allowing access to its permanent collections and to the event exhibition dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci.
The Louvre remained closed all day Friday because the strikers had blocked access until the end of the night. It was the first time the museum had closed since December 5, the date of the movement to protest the pension reform.
Furious visitors
The intersyndicale had justified its action by "the conditions of the museum agents who are degrading day by day" and had denounced "loss of staff" and a "disengagement of the State".
This action had provoked a tense face-to-face meeting with tourists from the provinces and even from abroad, furious at being prevented from visiting the museum.
"I'm tired of it!" Tourists angry with strikers at #Louvre # greve17janvier pic.twitter.com/tzyMgh77Ox
- Jonathan Moadab (@MoadabJ) January 17, 2020The Louvre received 9.6 million visitors last year, 75% of them foreigners, Americans, Chinese and Europeans in the lead.
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