Paris: Dozens of hooded protesters launched projectiles at riot police, smashed shop windows, torched cars and burned barricades during a demonstration in the French capital on Saturday against police violence. The police fired back volleys of tear gas.
Thousands of people had began marching peacefully in Paris when the clashes erupted between police and pockets of protesters, most dressed in black and their faces covered. Some used hammers to break up paving stones.
A car burns during the demonstration in Paris. Credit:
The protesters were denouncing police brutality and President Emmanuel Macron’s security policy plans which the demonstrators say would restrict civil liberties.
They waved banners that read “France, land of police rights” and “Withdrawal of the security law”.
