Almost 1,000 arrested as clashes follow another day of mass protests across France
Nearly 1,000 arrests were made as hundreds of thousands of people took part in another day of protests across France which were followed by some clashes late on Saturday, officials have said. After a day of largely peaceful demonstrations, police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters in a number of cities including [...] The post Almost 1,000 arrested as clashes follow another…
Nearly 1,000 arrests were made as hundreds of thousands of people took part in protests across France, which were followed by clashes late on Saturday, officials have said. Police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters in cities like Paris, while barricades burned in Marseille and businesses in Bordeaux saw their boards removed.
The interior ministry reported an estimated 410,000 protesters on Saturday, while unions estimated about 800,000. About 70,000 police officers were deployed to prevent the protests from turning violent, similar to the chaos seen last weekend. President Emmanuel Macron had previously restricted demonstrations to those organized by recognized trade unions.
French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said that "several thousand radical activists" were present at the end of the Paris march, including around 500 identified as rioters. Some protesters were seen erecting barricades and attacking police officers, while police used tear gas and charged groups of masked youths. Two people were reported seriously injured, one in Toulouse and another in Clermont-Ferrand.
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