A two-week strike by Paris garbage collectors is among the most visible signs of opposition to Emmanuel Macron’s decision to raise France's retirement age by two years. It will be bumped from 62 to 64 for most workers, and 57 to 59 for garbage collectors.
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“I prefer Chanel to the stink,” joked Vincent Salazar, a 62-year-old artistic consultant who lives in a tony Left Bank neighborhood. A pile of garbage sits at the corner of his building overlooking the Luxembourg Gardens.But like many nonchalant and strike-hardened Parisians, Salazar doesn’t mind. But garbage got wrapped up in the politics. And neither unions organizing protests nor some citizens are prepared to back down.
Sure enough, a green Paris garbage truck was seen collecting a long, high pile of rubbish Tuesday outside a school on a Left Bank street — although the truck was full long before all the refuse could be cleaned up. With incinerators blocked, the garbage was being taken to a storage site outside Paris.Workers in numerous sectors, from transportation to energy, have been holding intermittent strikes since January.
That scenario was repeated Monday night when hundreds of young people demonstrated near the gold-domed Invalides monument, site of Napoleon’s tomb. As night fell, small, mobile groups of troublemakers combed the city, burning trash bags, lamp posts and other objects. Nunez, the police chief, speaking on TV news station BFM, said 234 people were detained.
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