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Protesters face riot police officers behind barricade onfire in front of the Madeleine church in Paris during clashes after a demonstration against the pension reform plan Tuesday, June 10, 2003. Public sector workers walked off the job over a highly contested plan to reform the pension system and demonstrated in Paris as Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin was to open a parliamentary debate on the pension plan reform at the National Assembly. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours)