Under a radiant sun, the demonstrators, some of them dressed up for Halloween, initially marched in a good-natured atmosphere, away from the city centers, supervised by large police forces in order to avoid a repeat of the looting and damage to businesses of October 17. In Paris, clashes broke out between the police and demonstrators upon the arrival of the procession at Porte de Charenton, in the 12th arrondissement, an area saturated with tear gas.
In the evening, the Paris police headquarters reported five members of the police injured, including three by Molotov cocktail throws, while adding that the situation at 9:00 p.m. was calm in the Paris metropolitan area.
In total, 70,000 law enforcement agents were mobilized to supervise these gatherings across the territory.
This third consecutive Saturday of processions in France brought together between 320,000 and nearly half a million demonstrators depending on sources.
Some 320,000 demonstrators marched in the country during a new social mobilization, according to figures from the Ministry of the Interior, while the youth union counted nearly half a million.
A total of 320,000 people demonstrated throughout France, including 70,000 in Paris, according to the authorities who last week counted 410,000 people in total and 110,000 in the capital.