Police fire teargas at protesters at Paris car show

PARIS, Oct 9 (Reuters) - French riot police used teargas todisperse protesters outside the Paris auto show on a day ofstreet demonstrations over mounting job losses in a countrywhere unemployment is at its highest since 1999 and economicgrowth at a standstill.

The incident came as the CGT labour union, one of the twobiggest in France, sought to flex its muscles by organisingstreet rallies in the first nationwide protests since SocialistPresident Francois Hollande took power in May.

Police intervened after protesters including workers from adoomed PSA Peugeot Citroen plant attempted to breakthrough a security cordon around the location of the car show onthe edge of Paris, a Reuters reporter at the scene said.

(Reporting by Pauline Mevel and Nicholas Vinocur in Paris andJean-Francois Rosnoblet in Marseille; Writing by Brian Love;Editing by Alison Williams)

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