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Lawyers and other liberal professions demonstrated Monday, September 16 in Paris to maintain their autonomous retirement plan. REUTERS / Charles Platiau

Opposed to the future "universal system" of pensions wanted by the government, lawyers marched en masse Monday, Sept. 16 in Paris, accompanied by professionals of care and air transport, anxious like them to keep their "autonomous regimes".

According to the organizers, 20,000 protesters, mostly black dresses, but also some battalions of white coats and pilots in uniform, marched Monday, September 16 in Paris at the call of the National Council of Bars (CNB), joined by other professional organizations within the SOS Retraites collective.

This reform provides for a doubling of contributions for the first installment, which corresponds to just over 50% of the profession and which will therefore substantially increase the contributions to be paid by lawyers.

Simon Warynski, lawyer at the Strasbourg bar and vice-president of the FNUJA 16/09/2019 - by David Baché

Party of Opera shortly after 14h towards Nation, the procession, strewn with placards proclaiming " a retreat, not the slave trade " or " more expensive retirement, precarious justice ", finally dispersed in Bastille, the strong affluence having the delay in the course of the authorized course, according to the organizers.

Autonomous regimes

" We are not special plans, our caisses are beneficiaries and we intend to keep them, " said Dr. Jérôme Marty, president of the French Union for Free Medicine (UFML), differentiating pension funds from independent ones the SNCF, the RATP and the electric and gas industries, which are deficient and bailed out each year by the State.

The reform as it is done simply removes our CRPN, the pension fund of aircrew, on which no taxpayer, or even the state, has put a single euro. The universal system is in fact an opportunity for the State to simply take all the reserves that exist at the level of the CRPN, namely about five billion euros, and put us in a universal regime that We will work, stewards and stewardesses, until 64 years old.

Yann Dourthe, Air France head of cabin 16/09/2019 - by David Baché Listen

In their line of sight, the future "universal system" advocated by the High Commissioner for pensions Jean-Paul Delevoye, which will notably result in a sharp rise in contributions of self-employed. " If I double my dues, what will I have left of my 50 hours of work per week? Asked Beatrice, a 52-year-old dentist.

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Protesters also fear the transfer of financial reserves of their coffers, condemned to disappear, which range from two billion euros for lawyers to seven billion for doctors.