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The French ruling class wants to exploit the tragic attack to create a poisonous political atmosphere to divert attention from Macron’s despised pension reform.
On Thursday morning, in a signal that Macron is preparing brutal repression of continuing protests against pension cuts, police assaulted garbage workers’ pickets in the Paris suburb of Ivry.
President Emmanuel Macron had abandoned his plan to raise the pension age two years, which provoked a rail strike in 2019, amid mass strikes at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic.