Thousands in streets of Marseille to protest pensions reform "... the objective of this reform, like everything that has been happening since Macron arrived, is to break the French social model": in Marseille the streets throbbed with the sound of 12,000 demonstrators, according to police figures. For the hardline CGT union, the figure was closer to 150,000 people protesting Emmanuel Macron's pensions reform. On December 5, the police had counted 25,000 people. (COMPLETES VIDI1MY1VK_EN) IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES