142 people were detained in Paris during Saturday's protest.
This was announced by French Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanen on his Twitter.
Force est restée à la loi.
Plusieurs centaines de casseurs étaient venus pour commettre des violences.
La stratégie de fermeté anti-casseurs - 142 interpellations et encadrement du cortège - a permis de les en empêcher, de protéger les commerçants.
- Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) December 12, 2020
During the demonstration, protesters clashed with law enforcement officials in the city.
According to a TASS correspondent, representatives of a radical group in the city center began throwing stones at the police, and also set fire to a scooter.
The police, in turn, began to push back the demonstrators.
Police buses and water cannons were posted along the protesters' route.
The march of protesters is also accompanied by reinforced police units.
RT correspondent in Paris, Charlotte Dubenski, said that about one to two thousand people came out to the protest action on Saturday.
“They march from the Châtelet square to the Republic square.
At the moment, there seems to be some tension, but the forces of law and order are present in huge numbers.
And, what is very curious,
not only protesters are expressing
dissatisfaction with what is happening in the French government (around two bills
. - RT
) - now the police officers are also unhappy, ”she said.
Later, when a column of protesters arrived at Republic Square, riots broke out.
According to media reports, some protesters began throwing firecrackers, bottles and noise grenades at the security forces.
The police responded with tear gas and water cannons.
Demonstrations against the Global Security Bill were also held in a number of other large cities, in particular in Bordeaux, Dijon, Strasbourg and Lille.
In Lyon, police also used tear gas on protesters who tried to stir up riots in the city.
We will remind, mass protests in France began after the National Assembly of the country adopted in the first reading the bill "On Global Security".
The document empowers law enforcement officers of the country with a number of powers, including allowing the police to view CCTV cameras located in the immediate vicinity of retail outlets, as well as cameras belonging to landlords, which, according to the French authorities, will help to combat "illegal occupation of public places in apartment buildings ".
In addition, individual agents of state-owned companies will have access to video surveillance of public highways.
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However, at the same time, Article 24 of the bill assumes that for maliciously posting images of security officials that will allow them to be identified, punishment is provided in the form of one year in prison and a fine of € 45,000. Opponents of the bill perceived this initiative as a violation of freedom of the media and began to go out to demonstrations, which in most cases escalated into riots.
Last Saturday, December 5, according to the country's Interior Ministry, during the protests, about 70 law enforcement officers were injured.
95 protesters involved in the riots were detained.
Then the protesters threw stones and firecrackers at law enforcement officers, and also set fire to several cars.
In addition, demonstrators smashed shop windows on city streets, erected barricades and tried to disable surveillance cameras.
In turn, the police used tear gas to disperse the protesters.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanen then condemned the acts of vandalism, noting on Twitter that "the rioters are crushing the Republic."
The authorities of the country have already announced that they are withdrawing the 24th article for revision in order to change its content, but the demonstrators insist on the complete removal of the article from the text of the document.
It is worth noting that the protests in France were preceded by cases of police violence.
One of the incidents took place in the center of Paris.
A surveillance video released by French media shows police officers beating a black producer, Michel Zeckler.
According to media reports, the man tried to hide from law enforcement officers in his studio to avoid a fine for not wearing a mask on his face.
The incident caused a wide public outcry, forcing President Emmanuel Macron to react to it with condemnation of the actions of law enforcement officers.
Later, Macron, in an interview with Brut, said that a special Internet platform would be opened in January to post complaints about the activities of the security forces and facts of discrimination.