A group of protesters briefly invaded stock market operator Euronext’s offices in the La Defense business district of Paris on Thursday, as protests against French President Macron’s pension reforms continue.
The protesters said that big companies should pay to finance pensions. “We are told that there is no money to finance pensions,” said SUD-Rail unionist, Fabien Villedieu. There is “no need to get the money from the pockets of workers,” he said, as “there is some in the pockets of billionaires.”
Waving union flags, the group of a few hundred protesters occupied the Euronext building’s lobby. The area was engulfed in red smoke from flares, and the protesters chanted slogans popular during the anti-pension reform protests: “We are here, we are here, even if Macron does not want it, we are here.”…