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Nearly 1 million demonstrators poured into the streets across France Saturday, to protest the government’s pension reform plans, which would include raising the retirement age from 62 to 64.
In Paris, police clashed with demonstrators and lobbed tear-gas during a fourth day of national protests, as union organizers hoped to exceed the mass turnout on Jan. 19 when more than a million people took to the streets during a day of national strikes that resulted in school and transportation shutdowns.
Early estimates suggested that numbers of protestors in Paris had already increased by more than 20 percent since a similar demonstration in the capital on Tuesday, according to Le Figaro.
