Thousands take to the streets of Paris to protest soaring prices - Reuters

PARIS, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Thousands of radical took to the streets of Paris connected Sunday to protestation against soaring prices arsenic weeks of strikes for higher wages astatine lipid refineries spurred demands for a wide strike.

The person of hard-left enactment La France Insoumise (France Unbowed), Jean-Luc Melenchon, marched alongside this year's Nobel Prize victor for Literature, Annie Ernaux. He called a wide onslaught for Tuesday.

"You're going to unrecorded a week similar nary other, we are the ones who started it with this march," helium told the crowd.

Melenchon followed the footsteps of 4 unions - but not France's biggest, the mean CFDT - which person called for strikes and protests connected Tuesday for wage increases.

The 4 unions besides called the protests to assistance support the close to strike, aft the authorities ordered the requisitioning of immoderate lipid refinery workers, a determination seen by unions arsenic a usurpation of their law rights.

The march followed a telephone by the NUPES parliamentary coalition, which hopes to crook the leafage connected home unit accusations that person precocious dogged elder members.

Budget Minister Gabriel Attal said the left-wing conjugation was attempting to exploit the existent situation, marked by ongoing strikes astatine French inferior EDF's atomic plants and astatine French lipid refineries.

"Today's march is simply a march of supporters who privation to artifact the country," helium said connected French vigor presumption Europe 1.

Reporting by Lucient Libert and Stépahne Mahe; Additional reporting by Bertrand Boucey; Writing by Mathieu Rosemain; Editing by Nick Macfie

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