The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of France and overseas territories, Gerald Darmanin, recalled that, despite the ban on holding the demonstration, more than a thousand people arrived there.
"24 gendarmes were injured, 23 of them of moderate severity, one person in serious condition was taken to the hospital. As far as we know, seven people were injured among the demonstrators, six of them received moderate injuries, one is in serious condition, he was also evacuated by a gendarmerie helicopter, "TASS quoted him as saying.
According to the minister, radical citizens arrived at the protest site with pyrotechnics, containers with a combustible mixture and axes. The gendarmes suffered from the Molotov cocktails.
Earlier it was reported that demonstrators burned several police cars during riots near the commune of Saint-Solin in western France.
According to preliminary data, 11 people were detained.
On March 18, a rally was held in Paris against the supply of weapons to Ukraine and for the withdrawal of France from the North Atlantic Alliance.