In Lyon, in the Face of the Riots of a "Unpublished Magnitude", the "Priority Was to Protect Lives"
- Protesters reportedly set fire to a tourism office in central Lyon during nationwide demonstrations over living costs and rising fuel prices.
- In Lyon and Paris, protesters threw projectiles and fireworks at police, who used tear gas, dispersal grenades, and water cannons.
- More than 32,000 protesters joined about 140 actions nationwide, while police detained more than 160 people, according to an Interior Ministry source cited by AFP.
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In the aftermath of the violence and looting of the 17 October protests, the supporters of the Lyon Olympian deployed a banner at the Groupama Stadium supporting "those who make Lyon live".
Residents in a number of French cities woke up on Sunday to burned-out buildings and looted shops. “A tragedy,” said Lyon Mayor Grégory Doucet of the city’s tourist office being set on fire.
During the clashes between rioters and law enforcement officials on Saturday, 100 police officers were injured and 160 people - 124 of them major - were held in police custody, he said, interrogated in particular about the action of the police during the looting of many shops in the city centre. "We had three types of situations": at the beginning "a peaceful demonstration" - which gathered 20,000 people according to the prefecture - replaced "v…
Protesting students in the French city of Lyon attacked and set fire to the city's tourism office in response to the poor quality of textbook paper.
France in flames as protesters torch tourism office, 272 held - The Tribune
Clashes broke out between the police and protesters in cities across France on Saturday as tens of thousands of people took to the streets in some of the country’s most violent protests in years over rising costs and declining public services. Some 272 people had been arrested by mid-afternoon after violent incidents involving hooded individuals, […]
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