Alain Robert—known as the 'French Spiderman'—climbed a skyscraper in Paris to draw attention to the city's retirement protests. Pres. Emmanuel Macron offered to compromise on the age to qualify for a full pension, but it wasn't enough to satisfy unions.
French urban climber Alain Robert, well known as "Spiderman", raises his arms as he finished to climb the Total tower in the Paris business district of La Defense, Monday, Jan 13, 2020, in support of the transport strikes.
The walkout is part of a nationwide movement to stop President Emmanuel Macron from overhauling the French pension system, an ambitious but clumsily handled reform that has been stymied by 40 days of strikes. Train workers are keeping up the pressure too. While the number of strikers and disrupted train lines is down since the strike began Dec. 5, few Paris subways were running normally Monday, and many national and international trains were canceled or delayed.
The government is meeting Monday with lawyers' representatives to discuss the legal sector's concerns.
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