The Ministry of the Interior reported on Sunday more than 1,314 arrests and 53 members of the police injured the day after new demonstrations in France, marking a day of strong mobilization without major incidents. The Yellow Vests have already announced a new day of action on October 31.
In total, the CGT counted 800,000 protesters in the country, as many as a week earlier, including 250,000 in Paris, despite Emmanuel Macron's recommendation not to demonstrate and rainy weather in a large part of France. For their part, the services of the Ministry of the Interior counted 410,000 demonstrators, compared to 550,000 last week.
In Marseille, as night fell, small groups continued to play cat and mouse with the police in the city center, burning a few trash cans, but far from the chaos into which the city center's shopping districts were plunged on October 17. In Toulouse, a person was seriously injured in one hand during clashes with the police at the end of the demonstration, the prefecture said.
This new provisional report established at 7:30 a.m. Sunday shows 1,314 people arrested, compared to 2,628 on October 17, while 53 members of the police were injured, compared to 1,144 last week, and 75 fire interventions were carried out, compared to 2,025 last week, according to the ministry.
In Paris, where 110,000 people, according to the authorities, marched along a route imposed by the prefecture on the edge of the capital, clashes broke out at the end of the procession between the police and around 2,000 demonstrators, including 500"thugs", according to the authorities.