MOSCOW, May 27 French filmmaker Justine Trie, who received the Palme d'Or at Cannes, criticized the government during the award ceremony French President Emanuel Macron for his «shocking» crackdown on pension reform protests, Agence France-Presse reports. criticizing the French authorities during her speech after receiving the award.
On Saturday, Triet's film «Trajectory of the Fall» received the main prize of the 76th Cannes Film Festival — the Palme d'Or.
In January, the French authorities announced a draft pension reform, which caused a wave of mass protests in the country. 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. After that, the protests became more violent. The police began to increasingly use tear gas and water cannons to disperse demonstrations.
On April 14, the French Constitutional Council finally approved the key article of the bill, which provides for a gradual increase in the retirement age in the country by 2030.