French Tribune
written by Raoul Girard
Wednesday October 20, 2010
Tuesday wearing a veil youths dressed in black torched cars, smashed storefronts and threw up roadblocks, clashing with riot police across France because complaints over raising the retirement age to 62 took a drastic turn.
More than hundreds flights were cancelled and distracted drivers searched for gas while oil refinery strikes and blockages vacant the pumps at nearly a third of the nation's gas stations.
Sequence of all over the country protests against the bill since early September has been chiefly calm. Except Tuesday's clashes, especially just outside Paris and in the south-eastern city of Lyon, re-energized memories of student unrest in 2006 that forced the government to discard another highly unpopular labor bill.
At a halt, on Tuesday President Nicolas Sarkozy was formal. He swore to guarantee public order in the face of 'troublemakers.' The government declared a plan to pool gasoline stocks in order that dry stations can be filled. Mr. Sarkozy said that there are people who want to work, the immense majority, and they cannot be dispossessed of gasoline.
A new analysis could come as early as Thursday, as students have sketch a day of mobilization with a protest in Paris hours before the Senate is to vote on the retirement assess.
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