{"id":42316,"date":"2020-01-19T05:22:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T05:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=42316"},"modified":"2020-01-19T05:22:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T05:22:39","slug":"police-called-to-guard-macron-during-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=42316","title":{"rendered":"Police called to guard Macron during protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-text\">\n<div class=\"l-container\" readability=\"37.941381311666\">\n<p>The Elysee presidential palace told CNN that protesters had tried to enter the building,<strong> <\/strong>while video on social media shows police tussling with protesters outside the Bouffes du Nord theater&#8217;s building. Several demonstrators entered the building before being dragged back out by police. <\/p>\n<p>Riot police holding up shields formed a line against the protesters, who shouted &#8220;Macron, out,&#8221; in the latest of more than a month of protests against the embattled President&#8217;s pension reform plans. <\/p>\n<p>The President and his wife, Brigitte Macron, &#8220;were secured&#8221; for several minutes but were able to return and finish watching &#8220;The Fly,&#8221; French news agency AFP reported, citing sources from the President&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>French newspaper Le Monde reported online that police called for reinforcement to quell the protests and to escort the President and his wife home. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__read-all\" readability=\"46\">\n<p>Journalist and political activist Taha Bouhafs posted a video from inside the theater showing the back of the President&#8217;s head, making comments that allegedly invited activists to come and disrupt the show. <\/p>\n<p>Bouhafs has been arrested over the tweet, on suspicion of taking part in a group formed to commit violence or damage, a French judicial source told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Protests across France over pension reforms have hit fuel and power supplies, and cause large-scale transport disruption and the shutdown of schools. Macron says the changes are necessary to make the system fairer and more sustainable, but unions say workers will lose out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph zn-body__footer\">CNN&#8217;s Angela Dewan and Arnaud Siad contributed to this report. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Elysee presidential palace told CNN that protesters had tried to enter the building, while video on social media shows police tussling with protesters outside the Bouffes du Nord theater&#8217;s building. Several demonstrators entered the building before being dragged back out by police. Riot police holding up shields formed a line against the protesters, who&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":42317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}