Clashes erupted between protesters and police in western France

In Nantes, where a procession of several thousand people had just set off from the Place des Ducs de Bretagne, several young people began to throw objects at the guards of the law. They responded, as is often the case, with tear gas.In Rennes, demonstrators set fire to wooden boxes in the middle of the street, which obviously did not please the police. Azhans also started “calming” people with tear gas, then they sent a water cannon and additional police forces to help them.Not only mass processions are taking place across the country today. Many sectors of the economy suffered from the general strike. In particular, three out of four LNG terminals are blocked. According to the trade union center of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), up to 80% of the staff is on strike. The strikers have organized strike pickets on the access roads to the companies and do not allow vehicles heading towards their gates to pass.Due to the strike, most railway locomotives today remained in the depot. The strike also affected communications between France and Britain via the Channel Tunnel. Of the 26 Eurostar passenger trains, only 10 departed from Paris to London.
Several railway unions are now determined to go beyond March 7. They are ready to extend the strike for the next few days, and perhaps even make it indefinite. Similar sentiments are prevalent among workers in the energy complex, shipbuilding and other important sectors of the economy.A recent IFOP poll showed that 65% of French people support the strike and are in favor of its continuation. It is this development of events that the French authorities fear the most, who are trying to put an end to the pension reform at all costs.