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PARIS, Apr 13 Number of releases protests against the pension reform in France decreased markedly, on Thursday 380,000 people came out to protests across the country, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, BFMTV reported.
«The Interior Ministry reported about 380,000 protesters against the pension reform, significantly less than last week, when 570,000 people took to the protests,» the TV channel reported.
According to the police, 40,000 people protested in Paris. At the same time, the trade union «General Confederation of Labor» (CGT) read 400 thousand people in the capital and 1.5 million in France.
On Thursday, the twelfth day of a nationwide demonstration against raising the retirement age, about 270 protests took place in France.
As the correspondent reported, violent clashes between demonstrators and police began at the rally in Paris. Radicals from the black bloc movement used all sorts of homemade explosives and Molotov cocktails, firecrackers and paint cans. They threw large stones and glass bottles at the police. The police actively used tear gas and stun grenades to push back the demonstrators.
According to the channel, ten police officers were injured at a demonstration in Paris. One police officer was hospitalized in critical condition after being hit in the head by an improvised explosive device.
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Born used article 49.3 of the constitution on March 16 to pass a bill to raise the country's retirement age from 62 to 64 without a vote in parliament, sparking protests in the country.
On Friday, the Constitutional Council of France is to announce a decision on the compliance of the bill with the norms of the existing legislation of the country. If it is approved, the law will come into force on September 1.
According to the TV channel, the Constitutional Council is expected to announce its decision at half past five in the evening. A meeting of French President Emmanuel Macron with the Cabinet of Ministers is scheduled for 4 p.m.
According to the Interior Ministry, 131 demonstrations are expected in France on Friday, up to 41 thousand people will take part in them.
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