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How the world’s richest man became a lightning rod in French retirement age row

Macron’s pension reform plan is facing fierce resistance, with calls to tax tycoons instead.

Mr Bernard Arnault, the world’s richest man and owner of French luxury group LVMH, has become a lightning rod with protesters.

Protesters in France have been exhorting the world’s richest man, LVMH owner Bernard Arnault, to do more for the common good.

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Leila Abboud

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President Emmanuel Macron’s

by two years to 64 has ignited a debate in egalitarian-minded France: are the billionaires to blame?

As labour unions held a second massive strike on Tuesday, which

drew hundreds of thousands of people onto the streets

across the country, left-wing politicians have gone on the attack to argue that taxing the super-rich would be a better way to plug deficits in the state-run pension system.

How the world’s richest man became a lightning rod in French retirement age row

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