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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. |
| The wild protests are part of a larger trend that has seen previously peaceful demonstrations growing increasingly menacing as the government refuses to back down on the pension overhaul. On Thursday, nearly 1,000 fires were lit by protesters, about 440 police officers and firefighters were injured and about the same number of demonstrators were arrested throughout France, Gérald Darmanin, the French interior minister, said. |