On Monday, unions in France held a traditional Labor Day march, turning it into anti-government demonstrations against raising the retirement age.. During clashes with protesters, the French police used tear gas, writes The Guardian.

In Paris, a union-led demonstration began peacefully, joined by many families holding banners calling for social justice and calling for Macron to resign or repeal his law to raise the minimum retirement age from 62 to 64..

However, as the march passed through the 11th arrondissement of Paris, clashes erupted between the police and a group of black-clad youths.. Fireworks flew at the police, one of the law enforcement officers was seriously injured and was taken to the hospital with burns..

Some Parisian bus stops and shop windows were smashed and graffitied with anti-police slogans.. When the march reached the end point at the Place de la Nation, the police used tear gas and pushed back the crowd, from which firecrackers and flares were flying.

180 people were arrested across France, 53 of them in Paris..

It was also restless in Lyon, where several cars were set on fire and the windows of some enterprises were smashed.. In Nantes, in western France, protesters collected and set fire to garbage containers in front of the administrative building and smashed shop windows.. Law enforcement officers also resorted to the use of tear gas.

In Marseille, a group of over 100 demonstrators briefly occupied a luxury hotel near the old port before being pushed back by police. Tear gas was also used in Toulouse and Rennes.

Literally at the last minute, the police received permission to use drones as a means of security: the Paris court rejected the request of human rights groups that they not be used.

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During separate protests, environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion doused orange paint on the facade of the Louis Vuitton Museum in Paris.. Another environmental protest group splattered orange paint around the Place Vendome in central Paris, famous for its jewelry stores, targeting the facade of the Ministry of Justice..

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Macron signed an unpopular law last month to raise the minimum age for state pensions from 62 to 64, despite months of protests..

The current demonstrations have become the most massive mobilization of the protest potential of the population of our time.

Earlier, the media reported that 65% of the French have a negative attitude towards the activities of their President Emmanuel Macron, more than half believe that there are fewer freedoms after he took office..