Paris Police Storm Bank, Lead 2 Officials Past Strikers
Paris Police Storm Bank, Lead 2 Officials Past Strikers
Paris Police Storm Bank, Lead 2 Officials Past Strikers
Paris Police Storm Bank, Lead 2 Officials Past Strikers
Paris Police Storm Bank, Lead 2 Officials Past Strikers
December 10, 1987
December 1987
Riot police swinging truncheons rushed into the Bank of France before dawn Wednesday and forced aside a mass of striking workers to lead two besieged bank officials out of the venerable building. The show of force, which, ironically, came on a day when workers throughout France were electing representatives to traditional courts that try to settle labor disputes peacefully, infuriated French labor unions and seemed to harden the nine-day-old strike.
It also reflected the poor state of relations between the labor unions and the conservative government of Premier Jacques Chirac. Jacques de Larosiere, the former director of the International Monetary Fund who is now governor of France’s government-run central bank, said he had called on the police because the strikers were holding two bank officials against their will...
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