French police fire tear gas, arrest dozens as nation braces for another weekend of protests
- French security forces fired tear gas and arrested dozens of demonstrators on Saturday as authorities deployed over 70,000 police officers nationwide to head off a second consecutive weekend of violent civil unrest.
- The renewed clashes follow last weekend's massive cost-of-living demonstrations that resulted in more than 2,700 arrests, over 600 injured officers, and hundreds of millions of euros in property damage across nearly 3,000 looted or vandalized businesses.
- Protests originally sparked by high school students demonstrating against deteriorating classroom conditions quickly expanded into a broad anti-government movement fueled by soaring inflation linked to ongoing Middle East conflict supply disruptions.
- Cross-Party and student groups organized sit-ins and rallies outside city halls and Parliament condemning President Emmanuel Macron's "authoritarian drift," while a parallel counter-protest gathered in Orléans against Marine Le Pen's National Rally congress.
- Major retailers and cultural institutions across Paris barricaded storefronts as organizers called for continued demonstrations, with interior officials warning that radical groups intend to exploit peaceful gatherings to ignite further street violence.
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France has braced itself for another weekend of high tension. President Macron and Prime Minister Lecornu want to prevent a repeat of last weekend's debacle at all costs. But whether that will make much of an impression remains to be seen. Follow the latest developments in our live blog.
Despite prohibitions, people in many French cities took to the streets. While the rally in Paris remained peaceful, there were clashes with the police elsewhere.
France deploys 70,000 police to try to contain nationwide protests
Demonstrators took to the streets of France on Saturday under the watch of 70,000 police officers, with unrest appearing markedly less severe than a week earlier despite scattered confrontations in several cities. Tens of thousands of people marched peacefully through the French capital, according to police numbers, denouncing the high cost of living and accusing […]
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