Paris the coppers fired tear gas in northwestern Paris on Saturday to drive back protesters on the first year anniversary weekend of anti-government “yellow vest” proofs.
Clashes broke out between demonstrators and police near the Porte de Champerret as protesters were preparing to march across municipality toward Gare d’Austerlitz in southern Paris while police also intervened to prevent a few hundred demonstrators from tenanting the Paris ring road, according to Reuters TV footage.
Paris police said 24 people had been arrested by 0950 GMT.
The professed Yellow Vest protests erupted in mid-November 2018 originally over fuel price hikes and the high fetch of living but spiraled into a broader movement against President Emmanuel Macron and his drive for economic reforms.
Dissents have lost strength in recent months, going from tens of thousands of participants to just a few thousand, but its commandants have called to re-mobilize this Saturday, to celebrate the first anniversary.
At its peak in late 20018, the movement flourished to up to 300,000 people.