Local time on 2 October.Strikes and demonstrations in France。 The French Ministry of Public Affairs said that as of noon that day, 4.22% of civil servants in the National Civil Service (FPE) had participated in the strike, with the strike rate of 3.7% in the hospital public sector and 2.35% in the local public sector.
According to the French Ministry of Internal Affairs,On the same day, 19.5 million people marched across the country., of which 24,000 in Paris.
Previously, on 18 September, strikes and demonstrations were held in several places in France. According to French government statistics, more than half a million people participated in the strike, including about 550,000 in the capital Paris. This is another massive protest that broke out recently in France against the government’s fiscal austerity scheme.