France Sees New Pension Protests, Police Brace for Violence

Railway workers demonstrate on the tracks at the Gare de Lyon train station in Paris on March 28, 2023. Thomas Padilla/AP Photo

PARIS—Protests and strikes against unpopular pension reforms gripped France again Tuesday, with many thousands marching and the Eiffel Tower closed and police ramping up security amid government warnings that radical demonstrators intended “to destroy, to injure and to kill.”

Concerns that violence could mar the large demonstrations prompted what Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin described as an unprecedented deployment of 13,000 officers, nearly half of them concentrated in the French capital.