On October 16, on Saturday, in France, mass protests were held against the introduction of pension reform, which, among other things, also an increase in the retirement age. So the Agency France-Presse information agency reports that according to official figures provided by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of France, about eight hundred and five thousand people entered the streets in different cities of this country. However, according to representatives of the trade unions, the number of demonstrators has already exceeded three million.