Unrest over pension reform in France grew on Thursday, with Bordeaux town hall set ablaze.More than a million protesters took to the streets across France, amid renewed violence and tension.
457 arrests were made and 441 police injured, according to the country's Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin. The porch of the Bordeaux town hall, where King Charles III is set to be received early next week, was set on fire Thursday evening.
It was not clear who is behind the blaze, which firefighters quickly extinguished. Unrest - now in its ninth day - was sparked by French President Emmanuel Macron's attempt to increase the retirement age from 62 to 64.
He claims the reform is necessary to make the system economically viable, with increasing numbers of pensioners putting a burden on the state.