Riots have worsened in France for the ninth day of protests against the reform of Emmanuel Macron’s pensions. a group of protesters has set fire to the entrance of the Bordeaux City Hall this Thursday. According to local media, the fire was quickly controlled and extinguished by firefighters, and only the door of the building was damaged.

The fire in the building was started during a fight between demonstrators and police in the Town Hall square in Bordeaux. The mayor of Bordeaux, Pierre Hurmic, who went to see the magnitude of the fire, has assured that he “does not understand why they have attacked the house of all the Bordeaux”.

The tension in the country, paralyzed by these protests, increases. This Thursday the leader of the Unsubmissive France, Jean-Luc Melenchon, has ensured that the actions and blockades “must continue” because Macron “does not offer a compromise”. “The general strike was decided by the people. And I totally support it,” he said in an interview on the TF1 television channel.