Strike action has heated up in Paris again as demonstrators protested against his unpopular reform to raise France’s minimum pension age from 62 to 64 in Paris.

Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated across France for the third month before the bill is validated on by the constitutional council.

Some Paris bin-collectors resumed the capital’s refuse strike, which had stopped at the end of March after 10,000 tonnes of rubbish piled up. Police expect that between 400,000 and 600,000 people will take part in nationwide protests, which would be less than half of the peak of nearly 1.3 million reached in March