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Protests against social injustice and against police violence broke out in Paris on Saturday.
Protesters set cars on fire in the French capital and clashed with the police.
The police, in turn, used tear gas.
Several thousand people had gathered for the rally that afternoon;
among the demonstrators were many supporters of the yellow vests movement.
Repeatedly chants rang out like "Everybody hates the police."
Some chanted: “Macron, enough!” Or “Security law, no, no.
Social security, yes, yes ”.
The initially peaceful demonstration quickly turned into violence.
Cars were set on fire along the route and shop windows of banks and supermarkets were smashed.
Policemen remove burning barricades
Source: REUTERS
Cars were also set on fire
Source: AP / Francois Mori
Riot police stand between tear gas on a street during a protest
Source: dpa / Francois Mori
Police are blocking the path of protesters
Source: AP / Francois Mori
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A total of around a hundred rallies were planned for Saturday across France.
Originally registered as a protest by the trade unions against social injustice, many participants came to the demonstration in Paris out of anger about a planned security law that has been causing protests for weeks.
The nationwide protests were fueled by cases of police violence, which had become known through video recordings and which had caused horror nationwide.
There was already a mass protest last weekend.
With the planned law, the government of President Emmanuel Macron wants to criminalize the dissemination of photos or film recordings of police operations if this endangers the “physical or mental integrity” of individual officials.
Parliament wants to revise controversial article
Journalists' associations, however, fear massive restrictions on the freedom of the press.
Critics also argue that, in the past, many cases of police violence would have gone unpunished if they had not been filmed and posted on the Internet.
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In view of the protests against the law, the government majority in parliament has now announced that they want to revise the controversial film ban in the security law.
However, it is not yet known exactly how the article will be changed.
Critics are also calling for the disputed passage to be deleted completely.
The law also provides for other harshly criticized measures.
This includes, above all, the expansion of video surveillance by the police, for example during demonstrations and with the help of drones.
According to the government, this is intended to protect the police.
French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Friday that he would set up an online platform at the beginning of next year on which people can report discrimination, for example by the police.
Some police unions criticized the plans sharply.