![]() Police also fired tear gas in the Les Halles area, near the famed Pompidou Centre museum, to break up demonstrations.Ī Yellow Vest protester on November 16, 2019, one year after the protests started. "It's pathetic that the demonstration was banned," said Catherine Van Puymbroeck, 49. Police arrested 147 people across Paris by 8:00 pm (1900 GMT), of whom 129 were in custody.Įarlier in the afternoon, Paris police chief Didier Lallement had banned the Place d'Italie demonstration, condemning the "damage and the systematic attacks against the security forces and the fire brigade". Several demonstrators and a freelance journalist were injured. ![]() Police in full riot gear flooded the area in tear gas and used water cannons after demonstrators threw stones, set rubbish bins alight, overturned cars and set them ablaze, AFP correspondents said.Ī major shopping centre in the area closed its doors after dozens of protesters threw stones at the windows of a neighbouring hotel. ![]() Tensions focused on the Place d'Italie square in southeast Paris. The interior ministry put the number of demonstrators at 28,600 nationwide but the organisers said nearly 40,000 people had rallied. Numbers attending the protests and levels of violence have sharply diminished from the height of the movement, which began on the back of frustration Macron was failing to address the needs of ordinary French people.īut Saturday's protests - which demonstrators called "Act 53" of their weekly gatherings - marked the first serious clashes for months in central Paris between security forces and demonstrators. REUTERS/Charles PlatiauĪccording to some observers, the debris from the monument was used as projectiles that were thrown at police.Ĭlashes also broke out in other French cities as activists rallied to prove their movement is still a force a year after the first giant protest on November 17, 2018, which drew 282,000 people. Police at the Place d'Italie in Paris on November 16, 2019, the first anniversary of the Yellow Vest protests.
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