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Joggers in Paris get up early to run on the banks of the Saint-Martin Canal before 10 a.m., the time at which outdoor physical activities stop in the French capital until 7 p.m., as part of the measures in the fight against the spread of the coronavirus. IMAGES
Several thousand demonstrators, including railway workers, teachers and lawyers, took to the streets of Paris to march against pension reform. The government wants to fuse France's 42 different retirement schemes into a single points-based system but opponents fear a drastic decline in pension levels. IMAGES
"This constitutional revision will make this tragedy irreversible for the weakest members of society," says Marie-Lys Pellissier, spokesperson for the "March for Life", at an anti-abortion rights demonstration of about fifty activists near Port-Royal as the Senate prepared to vote on enshrining abortion in the Constitution. IMAGES
In the wake of Saturday's fatal knife attack in Paris, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has come out in favour of "psychiatric care orders that could be granted to police prefects" for "a those involved in radical Islam and who suffer from mental illness. A German tourist was fatally stabbed cloes to the Eiffel tower on Saturday and two other people wounded in the attack. The attacker was a Frenchman in his mid-20s born to a non-religious Iranian family but who had already done prison time for planning an attack and was known to the authorities as an Islamist radical with mental issues. SOUNDBITE
Images of people walking along the Champs-Élysées avenue, while the French capital is closed to motorised vehicles for part of the day, in order to enjoy "a calmer, livelier and more breathable city," according to the mayor. 'Paris Breathes' first started in 2015. IMAGES
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