"Paris may be on fire and full of stinking rubbish - but that should not prevent you from enjoying your morning croissant. That's the message from fearless video reviewer Luis Sal, who braved riots and strikes on a city-wide taste test of flaky pastries last Thursday. The 25-year-old Italian found himself at the centre of a day of action against President Emmanuel Macron's decision to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 without a parliamentary vote last month. 'My name is Luis and today I'm in Paris to try the top five croissants, and we're going to see which one is the best,' he says in a YouTube video which had 650,000 views within a day of being posted. Luis is immediately shoved in the back by a riot policeman, as La Rotonde – Mr Macron's favourite Paris restaurant – burns in the background. ...”
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