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After weeks of decline, the movement of "yellow vests" took a new impetus yesterday, with violence, by a large demonstration in Paris dotted with clashes with the police, looting shops and barricades on the famous avenue of the Campos. Elíseos, which resulted in 109 inmates and 12 minor injuries.

A total of 32,300 people demonstrated in France, according to figures from the Ministry of the Interior. According to the "yellow vests", there were 230,766 demonstrators. The demonstrations took place while President Emmanuel Macron spent the weekend skiing in the Pyrenees, in the south-west of France, with his wife Brigitte.

"I will spend two or three days here to regain strength and rediscover the landscape and friendly faces," Macron told the regional newspaper La Depeche du Midi. But because of the incidents, Macron has suspended his weekend to return to Paris where he planned to attend a nighttime crisis meeting at the Ministry of the Interior, announced the French presidency.

The first acts of violence were recorded shortly before noon on the famous Paris artery, where about 10,000 protesters had gathered. While some groups chanted anticapitalist or anti-political slogans, others erected barricades and ransacked stores of big brands such as Hugo Boss and Lacoste with the cry of "revolution!"

The famous restaurant Fouquet & # 39; s, frequented by political figures and personalities, was the subject of great destruction: broken glbad, tables demolished, paintings on the facade and awning of the entrance destroyed by fire. A fire was also reported in a bank, located on the ground floor of a residential building, which was ravaged by flames. Firefighters evacuated the residents and extinguished the fire. Twelve people were slightly injured, including two policemen, according to firefighters. Among the protesters, a man was wounded on the Champs-Elysees, probably by a rubber bullet that hit him in the eye.

The Minister of the Interior, Christophe Castaner, denounced on Twitter that the perpetrators of these acts "are neither demonstrators nor rioters, they are murderers". Castaner described the acts of "professionals of destruction and disorder" and asked the police to react "with the utmost firmness to these unacceptable attacks". The Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe, went to Paris Avenue in the afternoon to check the damage and thank the police for his work. Some 237 people have been arrested, according to a report reported by the authorities. The prosecutor's office in Paris reported that 106 people had been accused of crimes or offenses. The figures reported by the Minister of the Interior represent about 7,000 to 8,000 protesters Saturday in the French capital, including 1,500 "ultraviolet".

It had been weeks since scenes of looting and clashes of this kind had been seen in Paris, recalling those recorded on the same Champs-Elysees in late November and early December, and whose images were circumnavigating the world. A short distance from the broken windows, near the Arc de Triomphe, other protesters, dressed in black and wearing a hood or helmet, threw stones at the security forces, who fought back with gas cannons and water cannons. According to images broadcast by television, another group reportedly attempted to attack a gendarmerie truck.

Presented as an "ultimatum" to President Macron, this 18th day of mobilization against the fiscal and social policy of the French government comes after a series of debates in France with which the government hoped to channel the anger of the protesters and make proposals emerge. In concrete "We demobilized a bit last week but we are not dead, Macron! Let's go!" said Murielle, a "yellow vest" who participated in a march that left the north-west of Paris. Demonstrations also took place in other French cities, such as Lyon (center-east), Montpellier (south) or Bordeaux (south-west).