FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 239: ATTEMPT TO OVERTURN MACRON PENSION SCHEME FAILS, A PROTEST IN PARIS CARRIES ON

 

           (MAINSTREAM MEDIA SOURCES USED IN CONNECTION WITH THIS POST)

       YELLOW VESTS GATHER TO PROTEST IN PARIS JUNE 10, 2023

On Tuesday the pension reform repeal legislation brought by National Assembly members from France's overseas territories gutted in committee.

The provision to restore the retirement age to 62 taken out.

The deciding votes came from the members of the committee who held the balance of power deputies from the old-guard "Right" Les Republicains party.

That doomed the legislation because Yael Braun Pivet, the President of the National Assembly from President Emmanuel Macron's faction, ruled an amendment to restore the retirement age to 64 was inadmissible.

Mass protests across France on Tuesday against the pension reform unions again in the forefront the CGT trade union federation estimating some 900,000 people on the streets with the government claiming only 281,000 participated...

               NBC NEWS REPORT ON PARIS PROTESTS JUNE 6, 2023

On Thursday the knife attack by a Syrian asylum seeker in Annecy became the focus of the media.

President Macron made it a point to visit with first responders and health care workers involved in the tragedy on Friday.

FROM PARIS THIS AFTERNOON THE FIRST LIVE VIDEO OF TODAY'S PROTEST...

LIVE VIDEO STREAM PARIS YELLOW VESTS PROTEST WEEK 239 6/10/2023

Another live video from Paris today this video from "Boucha Info" on You Tube giving us some of the flavor of today's protest on the streets...

SECOND LIVE VIDEO STREAM YELLOW VESTS PARIS WEEK 239 6/10/2023

More from the sidelines of today's protest in Paris in this 31 minute video...

Here is another late afternoon livestream view from Paris as today's protest winds down...

PARIS YELLOW VESTS WEEK 239 LIVE STREAM VIDEO SATURDAY 6/10/2023

Here are short videos of the protesters in Paris today...

Various causes represented in the crowd today one can never be sure who the real protesters are and who the government provocateurs are the undercover agents sent in to make this protest of what is now a small group of people look bad.

THERE WERE ALSO PRIDE MARCHES IN SOME FRENCH CITIES TODAY LIKE TOULOUSE AND NANTES WITH THOUSANDS PARTICIPATING.     

                          That's the story of France and the Yellow Vests for this week.    

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