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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America French strike sparks street clashes, fuel warnings AFP - Friday, October 15 Send IM Story Print PARIS (AFP) - – French youths clashed with police Thursday and oil refinery shutdowns prompted warnings of fuel shortages as unions called a fifth national strike against President Nicolas Sarkozy's pensions reform. Pupils blockaded their schools and some near Paris threw stones at police who responded with non-lethal riot guns as officials warned protests against raising the retirement age from 60 to 62 could get out of hand. With eight of France's 12 refineries shutting down operations, the petrol industry association urged the government to release emergency fuel stocks and called for protestors blocking fuel depots to be removed. France's main unions upped the ante in the fight against the reform meanwhile, calling for their members and supporters to hold the fifth in a series of strikes and street rallies on Tuesday. The latest national protest on Tuesday brought more than a million people on to the streets but the government showed no sign of backing down. High school pupils demonstrated in several towns Thursday, in what is traditionally interpreted in France as a sign of hardening resistance, police said. Pupils threw stones at police at two schools north of Paris and officers clashed with youths and made arrests in the northern city of Lens. Thousands of pupils marched peacefully in Toulouse, Bordeaux and other cities. Police said a 16-year-old was taken to hospital after being injured in the eye by a Flash-Ball round fired by an officer in Montreuil, one of the Paris suburbs. "Some of the blockades risk degenerating into urban riots," said Daniel Auverlot, a senior education official for the district. Dominique Voynet, mayor of Montreuil, condemned "police violence against high school pupils", in a statement. "This is provocation that would appear to be aimed at provoking incidents and transforming a necessary democratic debate into a spiral of violence and confrontation," said Voynet, a Green party member who opposes the reform. Several dozen youths were arrested in the greater Paris area, authorities said. The government said 342 of France's senior high schools were affected. The UNL union put the figure at 1,100 with 700 shut. With Sarkozy vowing to push through the reform, currently under debate in the Senate, by the end of the month, Transport Minister Dominique Bussereau moved to calm fears of fuel shortages after reports of panic buying. "If there is no more panic buying, we have all we need to get by," Bussereau said on LCI television. "Above all I say to motorists: do not run to fill up your tank or your petrol supplies, you do not need to." The head of the national federation of petroleum distributors, Jean-Louis Schilansky, said that his members had 10 days' worth of fuel reserves in their depots, and asked for government permission to dip into them. The transport ministry authorised distributors to begin drawing down these stocks, but rebuffed calls to dip into strategic reserves. "After that, there's what we call the strategic reserve. If we needed to we could use that, but we're not there yet," Bussereau said later on RTL radio. France has 17 million tonnes of refined fuel products and crude oil in its stategic reserve, the equivalent of 98.5 days of normal consumption. The strikes hit 70 percent of France's refining capacity on Wednesday. Eight of its 12 refineries were shutting down operations -- a process that can take several days -- and output was severely disrupted at another three. Protestors blocked at least three fuel storage depots on Thursday, police and the CGT union said, and Schilanksy urged the government to clear them. Transport strikes ebbed on Thursday, however, with only between one-fifth to one-third of workers of the SNCF national rail company on strike, and only six percent of Paris metro workers striking, the companies said. The government has refused to budge on the reform, key parts of which have been definitively passed by the Senate. The reform, part of efforts to rein in France's public deficit, is a key part of Sarkozy's agenda as he is expected to run for re-election in 2012. Unions and the Socialist opposition say he is making workers pay an unfair share of the bill for the financial crisis and have made alternative proposals for funding the deficit. 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