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The feast of May 1 in France yesterday left half a thousand detainees and hundreds of others injured, destruction of furniture, fires and numerous violent incidents. Specifically, 540 people were arrested across the country, 305 of them in Paris, according to data updated Tuesday by Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin.
There are 406 police and gendarmes who were injured in the various marches that were held in the national territory. In the capital alone, 259 officers were injured, said the minister, interviewed on BFMTV.
Specifically, there was a policeman who was injured by a Molotov cocktail thrown by radicals and who had significant burns. He is hospitalized and, although his life is not in danger, "he could have died," the minister said.
As Darmanin pointed out yesterday, there were a thousand radicals in the demonstration in Paris, where, shortly after starting, there were 30 detainees and tensions began between some groups and the forces of order. The demonstration, which began in the Republic Square, ended in the Plaza de la Nación, where street furniture and a bicycle parking lot were set on fire that created a fire and forced firefighters to intervene.
The use of drones to monitor flows did not prevent all these incidents. Monday's protest was one of the largest and most tense protests since the movement against President Emmanuel Macron's controversial pension reform began. The law was enacted two weeks ago, after three months of protests and strikes, but the clamor in the street continues and the traditional march of May 1 became a new act of protest against this reform.
"We must have the strongest criminal sanctions against those who attack the police," Darmanin added on Tuesday, calling for an "anti-thug law."
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