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| ‘It Just Feels Good to Vent Your Anger’: Spasms of Violence Jolt Paris | ‘It Just Feels Good to Vent Your Anger’: Spasms of Violence Jolt Paris |
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| As an enormous march against an unpopular pension overhaul was winding down in Paris, small groups of young protesters began planning their next move as night fell. | As an enormous march against an unpopular pension overhaul was winding down in Paris, small groups of young protesters began planning their next move as night fell. |
| “Let’s go to the Bastille,” a man in his 20s told his friends. Another, checking social media on his phone, said, “It looks like Châtelet is the meeting point,” referring to a different section of the capital. A few minutes later, the groups slipped out of the square. | “Let’s go to the Bastille,” a man in his 20s told his friends. Another, checking social media on his phone, said, “It looks like Châtelet is the meeting point,” referring to a different section of the capital. A few minutes later, the groups slipped out of the square. |
| And so began a “wild protest,” as the participants call such activities, in which groups of a few dozen young men and women, some clad in black and masked, roam the streets, knocking over city bikes and scooters, and setting fires while playing cat-and-mouse with the police. “Paris, rise up!” they chanted. | And so began a “wild protest,” as the participants call such activities, in which groups of a few dozen young men and women, some clad in black and masked, roam the streets, knocking over city bikes and scooters, and setting fires while playing cat-and-mouse with the police. “Paris, rise up!” they chanted. |
| Wild protests have become a fixture of Parisian nightlife after the French government rammed through a pension bill last week raising the retirement age to 64, from 62, without a vote in the lower house of Parliament. | Wild protests have become a fixture of Parisian nightlife after the French government rammed through a pension bill last week raising the retirement age to 64, from 62, without a vote in the lower house of Parliament. |