The state visit of the British King Charles to France has been postponed at short notice. The visit apparently found the leadership in Paris too sensitive because of the ongoing wave of protests. Disruptive actions by the union have also been announced.
The monarch was originally supposed to arrive in France on Sunday. There are currently increasing protests and strikes in the country over President Emmanuel Macron’s controversial pension reform. Sometimes these are accompanied by riots. On Thursday alone, there were more than 450 arrests and about 440 police officers and gendarmes injured.
In recent days there have been more and more signals that the original date will not be met. Because the accreditation of journalists took a long time, which was considered unusual by many.
A fuss over the state banquet at the Palace of Versailles
The opposition was particularly critical of a large state banquet scheduled for Monday at the Palace of Versailles. The “monarch of the republic” receives the king while “people are demonstrating in the streets,” said Green MP Sandrine Rousseau.
Source: Krone
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