Reuters. Clashes erupted in Paris on Thursday (April 6) as protesters marched during the 12th day of nationwide strike against President Emmanuel Macron and his deeply unpopular pension bill.
Riot police fired tear gas canisters and charged demonstrators.
Trade unions urged a show of force on the streets a day before the Constitutional Council's ruling on the legality of the bill that will raise the state pension age by two years to 64.
If the Council gives its approval, possibly with some caveats, the government will be entitled to promulgate the law, and will hope this will eventually put an end to protests, which have at times turned violent, and coalesced widespread anger against Macron.
Demonstrators briefly blocked an access road to the Council with rubbish bins, hanging a banner across the street reading "Constitutional Censorship".
The industrial action has lost some steam and the protests have rallied thinner crowds in past weeks compared with the more-than 1 million-strong numbers seen earlier in the movement.
But unions remained defiant.
