France's 'crippling' strikes: By the numbers

The protests have brought the French economy to its knees, and all over a 24-month extension of the retirement age

French pension-law protesters clash with police at Charles De Gaulle Airport
(Image credit: Hugues Leglise Bataille/epa/Corbis)

The strikes that have "crippled" France for the past two weeks look to be winding down now that the government has approved President Nicolas Sarkozy's controversial pension-plan overhaul, which triggered the unrest. Even so, another general strike on Thursday is grounding flights, halting trains, and shutting down gas stations. (Watch a Russia Today report about the strikes.) Here are some of the numbers behind the protesters' two-week battle with the French government over pension reform:

1.1 million

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