Fires are started across France and protests continue after Macron forces through hated pension law

Fury spread across the streets of Paris on Friday as angry protesters disrupted traffic and set cars and barricades ablaze as a controversial bill to raise the retirement age was forced through parliament without a vote.

Several cars were torched in Paris and other French cities in the evening during demonstrations involving several thousand people. Trade unions mobilised workers to briefly block a Paris ring road.

Angry critics, political opponents and labor unions around France all blasted…