France: 106,000 protestors, 121 arrested

The French police and gendarmerie detained 121 people during demonstrations against rising prices and police violence, which took place throughout the republic on November 14. This was reported by the TV channel BFMTV with reference to the interior Ministry of France, writes sb.by.

According to TASS, this data from all over the country as of 17:00 (19:00 MSK), they can be updated before the end of the day. Earlier in the prefecture of the police of Paris reported about the detention in the capital of 22 people, including 3 teenagers. Detentions were carried out mainly for carrying items that fall under the category of weapons, insults, as well as for violating the prohibition to appear in certain places or participate in demonstrations.

According to the French Interior Ministry, 106,000 people took part in demonstrations across France on Saturday. The largest rally was traditionally held in Paris, where 24,000 people took to the streets, according to the ministry. Associations of students and schoolchildren involved in the protests, for their part, announced the participation of 200,000 people across France, of which 100,000 were in Paris.

As the TASS correspondent was convinced, in the French capital, the demonstration was mostly calm, but closer to the end point of the route of the column, clashes began between groups of hooligans and the police. All the participants of the action arrived at the Nation Square, from where the police officers on duty around its perimeter asked them to disperse. Several times, law enforcement officers dispersed the crowd with batons and tear gas, now there are almost no demonstrators in the square.

In a number of other major cities, where marches were also organized on the appeal of the movement “yellow vests” and associations of students and schoolchildren, were recorded small incidents. In Nantes, the police used a water cannon to disperse the crowd, reports of clashes with law enforcement officers came from Bordeaux and Lyon.

Mass protests have been taking place in France since late September, when school students began blocking schools, expressing dissatisfaction with their poor condition, overloaded schedules and lack of teachers in a number of subjects. In October, protests by trade union organizations began, demanding higher wages and the authorities’ refusal to take additional austerity measures. Thousands protest in Paris against rising prices