Protesters stormed the headquarters of luxury conglomerate LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton on Thursday as the nationwide protest movement against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension overhaul morphed into a populist rebuke of France’s establishment, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Video footage captured a crowd of men waving flares and banners as they forced their way through the entrance of the luxury group’s headquarters on Paris’s tony Avenue Montaigne. WSJ said another video clip shows the crowd proceeding up an escalator to a reception area that leads to higher floors where LVMH Chief Executive Officer Bernard Arnault, the world’s richest man, has offices along with other top executives. People at the headquarters said the intruders didn’t stay in the building for long. Protesters had cleared out of the area by the early afternoon, WSJ reported.
Around 3,80,000 people demonstrated against the reform across France on Thursday, with 42,000 demonstrators in the capital, according to the Interior Ministry. It is the third straight week the number of protesters has fallen, according to WSJ.