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A breaker, actively sought after the clashes of November 16, place d'Italie in Paris, was arrested Wednesday morning, in a rural cottage in Puy-de-Dome, according to information from Europe 1. This man, aged 36 years, had posted on social networks a photo on which he posed with a shield of mobile policeman. He is also suspected of having set fire to a parked car.
Identified thanks to an "intelligence", and confused by video-protection images, he was arrested at 6 am in Putanges-le-Lac by police officers from the 13th district police station. He was taken into custody for "degradation of private good by fire", "participation in a group formed to commit violence against persons or destruction of property", "voluntary concealment during a demonstration on the way public "and" concealment of theft "for the mobile gendarmerie shield. The individual arrested was well known to the police, with 43 mentions to the file of the treatment of the criminal antecedents.
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The first anniversary of the "yellow vests"
On November 16, the rally organized for the first anniversary of the mobilization of "yellow vests" was marked by violent clashes in the Place de Italie, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. Clashes between demonstrators and police broke out. Several barricades and cars were burned, and the bus shelters around the square shattered. Several people dressed in black also tried to break into the Italy 2 shopping center and stalled a fire truck trying to extinguish the barricades in flames. According to figures from the Ministry of the Interior, nearly 28,000 people had mobilized in France in response to various calls for "yellow vests" launched on social networks, including 4.7000 demonstrators in Paris.