Greve Generale

While the law to reform the retirement age has been passed by the French government the French people are still in uproar, this could be seen during this Thursdays demonstration held in central Paris where thousands of people took to the streets to make their voices heard. The march started at the Place de Republique and continued along the Boulevard Haussman ending at the Place Saint Augustin. Recently the protests had turned violent with the French police forcibly breaking picket lines and, controversially, attacking occupying high school students with C.S gas and batton rounds. The police presence was noticeable but thankfully there was no real trouble. One new thing I did learn is that you can use distress flares to burn messages into cobblestones...













More of my images from the days demonstration in Paris can be seen for syndication on Alamy.com via this link