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Protesters storm BlackRock’s Paris office holding red flares and firing smoke bombs
| Videos shared on social media showed protesters entering the Centorial office block, located near the Opéra Garnier opera house, holding red flares and firing smoke bombs.
| About 100 people, including representatives of several labor unions, were on the ground floor of the building for about 10 minutes, chanting anti-reform slogans. BlackRock’s office is located on the third floor.
| “The meaning of this action is quite simple. We went to the headquarters of BlackRock to tell them: the money of workers, for our pensions, they are taking it,” Jerome Schmitt, spokesman for French union SUD, told CNN affiliate BFM-TV. BlackRock declined to comment.
| Various articles:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/06/business/blackrock-office-stormed-paris-protests/index.html
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pension-reform-protesters-briefly-invade-paris-blackrock-building-2023-04-06/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/06/france-pension-protests-blackrock/
| For context, BlackRock is the world's largest asset manager - with over $10 trillion worth of assets falling under their purview. Keep fighting the good fight you funny French people.
| The French know how to protest, that's for sure.
It's kinda hard to grasp that income distribution today is worse than it was during the French revolution, but I don't think guillotines will save us this time. Todays society is a little bit more complex than how it was in 1799.
| I have a suspicion that the protests are a bit of catharism, did anything come of the yellow vest protest.
| Ante Scriptum; FUCK YEAH FUCK BLACKROCK and look up ESG scores
Ye France is a bit like that, what you absolutely need to understand is as opposed to the USA cucks who hide behind a piece of paper which gets routinely raped by their own agencies the French have a simpler way to dissuade governmental fuckery: if you fuck with us, we'll fuck your whole shit up.
The French love to complain. They really enjoy telling others how they should be doing things.
| They got an ego and most important they have something called culot, I'll loosely translate it to "being ballsy". There is a word in the French language which is "franc", and being franc is like a mix of being sincere, upstanding and brutally honest. Kind of like giving it to you cash. They might talk shit, they're sometimes loud, sometimes rude, although generally tactful, nd yet they can be so quiet and sensible. They're to Europe what Australia is to Oceania.
| I mean, just check these cunts out...https://youtu.be/watch?v=gFwxC9ThejE
French president posts a tweet congratulating streamers for the ZEvent, fundraiser for ecology... French streamers response, live: Holy shit fuck right off, you fucking champion of ecology you (he's a banker ;S)
Said it right to the president's face mdr
| Only sometimes it's rioting and protesting just to protest, like the fucking maghrebians do when they win anything at football, but generally the french like to protest, it's in the culture.
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| Demonstrators forced their way into the building that houses BlackRock’s office in Paris Thursday, taking their protest against the government’s pension reforms to the world’s biggest money manager.