French President Emmanuel Macaron has held a meeting at the Elysee Palace to discuss the repercussions of the violence and dozens were injured in fresh clashes on Sunday between police and the "yellow jackets" in Paris and Toulouse before the calm returns in the evening.
McCron, who has just returned from the G20 summit in Argentina, Prime Minister Eduard Philippe, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner and the "competent bodies", met to find a solution to the out-of-control demonstrations in Paris. A presidential source confirmed that the state of emergency was not discussed during the meeting.
Before that, McCron took a symbolic step, and visited the teacher of the Arc de Triomphe, which was on Saturday to acts of sabotage, also visited the Kleber area to inspect and greet the security forces, while the protesters faced with anti-cheers such as "go ... go."
"It is very rare to demand the departure of a president (in France), it is not common," said Luc Mellenchen, head of France's far-right party bloc, Luc Mellenchen, who was surprised by the protesters' demand for the president's departure.
The French Senate announced Tuesday that it would hear before a committee of ministers responsible for security "for clarification of the means deployed by the Minister of the Interior" in the face of chaos, while the Minister of Interior announced the government's readiness to consider all options to control security, including the imposition of a state of emergency.
| Of the effects of vandalism on the Arc de Triomphe (Reuters) |
Wounded and detained
In Paris, police fired sound bombs, tear gas and water cannons on protesters on the Avenue des Champs-Elysées, killing 133 people, including 23 police, and arresting 412 people and arresting 378 suspects, according to an official toll of the police department.
In front of the Arc de Triomphe, Al-Jazeera correspondent Hafez Mribih said on Friday evening that the region is relatively calm after the shock suffered by the residents yesterday as a result of the violence, while police are now cleaning the site and removing the anti-capitalist slogans written by protesters on the walls.
Police in the southwestern city of Toulouse also confirmed that 57 people were injured today, including 48 policemen, adding that police officers would be out of work for up to 10 days.
The city of Avignon (southeast) decided to cancel the Christmas market, which was due to open at the end of next week, "because of the tension caused by the protests of yellow jackets," according to an official source.
A total of 136,000 people took part in Saturday's protest across France on the third day of the Yellow Jackets, in which 263 people were injured and a car driver in Arles was killed in a traffic accident caused by the crowd, Since the launch of the move three weeks ago.