Emmanuel Macron is booed during Bastille Day parade in Paris

Members of the public booed the French president during the annual military parade in Paris. Macron travelled down the Champs Élysées in a military car, commemorating the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789, one of the most important events of the French Revolution. The president’s recent decision to raise the retirement age sparked months of protests and has damaged his popularity ratings ever since
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