Virtually 1,000 arrested as clashes observe one other day of mass protests throughout France

In the southern port of Marseille, garbage bins have been set ablaze and metallic sheets used to dam streets. A legislation enforcement car was seen driving by way of a burning barricade in France’s second-largest metropolis.

Meanwhile, some protesters in darkish clothes and face coverings have been seen taking boards off a constructing to construct a road barricade within the southern metropolis of Bordeaux.

In Lyon, police used tear gasoline grenades to disperse a crowd which had reportedly gathered in an space deemed off-limits by the native prefecture.

“There have been round 150 of us, principally secondary college and college college students. Then the tear gasoline got here virtually instantly. You might barely see something on the street,” mentioned one protester in France’s third-largest metropolis.

Nuñez mentioned late within the day that almost 1,000 folks had been arrested, a quantity he mentioned would improve.

The minister additionally mentioned two folks had been “significantly injured”: one within the south-western metropolis of Toulouse, and one other one in Clermont-Ferrand, central France.