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Sat 10 Oct 2010The scuffle, the tension, the gas
The campaign against Nicolas Sarkozy’s plan to increase the French retirement age seemed to be petering out until this week’s intervention by students and oil workers. Now, though, the protests have become an outlet for a wider discontent, writes RUADHÁN Mac CORMAIC, Paris Correspondent
ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, a few hours after a crowd outside the French senate building, on the Left Bank in Paris, had dispersed, I stood at the side of the road talking to a group of protesters who were packing up their paraphernalia for the day. About a dozen activists and a couple of students who had joined the march now sat on the kerbside, smoking joints and taking in the sun.
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