More than 100,000 hit French streets in job law protest

More than 100,000 protesters started marching through French cities today, with organisers aiming for more than a million participants and their biggest show of strength yet to demand repeal of a job law that has riven the country.

A nationwide strike snarled air, train and rail traffic, and students barricaded schools over the measure.

By noon at least 100,000 people had hit French streets, according to police, including buoyant students parading through Marseille under a sunny sky and major marches in cities from Nantes in the west to Saint-Etienne in the south-east.