Vacationers pissed off as pension reform protesters block entry to the Louvre Museum
Protesters from commerce unions, angered by President Emmanuel Macron’s determination to lift the French retirement age and not using a remaining vote in parliament, visited the Louvre Museum in Paris on Monday, to the dismay of crowds of holiday makers.
Demonstrating peacefully in opposition to plans to have most French folks work an additional two years to their 64 years to stability the pension price range, a small variety of protesters demonstrated on the foot of the Louvre’s glass pyramid. One banner learn “Retire at 60 – work much less to stay longer”.
A line of discouraged vacationers crept throughout the courtyard.
“It is absurd,” stated Samuel, an unnamed Mexican vacationer. “We got here from all over the place on this planet with our kids to go to a museum and it is absurd that 20 folks block the doorway.”
“I actually perceive the place they’re coming from, and that is honest sufficient,” stated Jane, the customer from London, “however all of us need to go see Mona Lisa, however you do not have to fret.”
Louvre staff have been among the many protesters outdoors the well-known museum. A tour information on the Louvre Museum got here out to handle the guests. “We hope you perceive our causes,” she stated.
The protest got here a day earlier than the tenth spherical of nationwide strikes and avenue marches and adopted violence in cities throughout France over modifications to the pension system.
Individually, the Paris police stated they have been finishing up an operation to forestall unauthorized gatherings in entrance of the Middle Pompidou, one other historic museum in Paris.
Reuters
