"Yellow vests" and police returned to Paris

About twenty people were arrested in the capital. According to figures from the Ministry of the Interior, 12,100 people demonstrated throughout the country.

The "yellow vests" resurfaced in the streets of France, almost three months after the beginning of the demonstrations, in a day with a decreasing participation, but again marked by clashes with the forces of order.

In the middle of the afternoon, the police prefecture said that 21 people had been arrested in the capital. According to figures from the Ministry of the Interior, 12,100 people demonstrated throughout the country, including 4,000 in the capital.

In Paris, the procession visited the main institutions of the country, from the Arc de Triomphe to the Champs de Mars, through the Chancellery, the National Assembly (deputies) and the Senate.

A few hours after a calm start, clashes between protesters and riot police took place at the doors of the National Assembly, whose facade is under construction.

One group tried to force Parliament's billboards to which the agents responded with tear gas canisters.

According to the version of one of the agents collected on the news channel BFM TV, a man in his thirties would have found a way to launch him against the riot police but he would have exploded by hand, which He would have torn four of his fingers.

The march continued its course uneventfully for two hours, until the middle of the afternoon, when they again found damage around the Eiffel Tower and Plaza de Trocadero.

Tensions were repeated in the cities of Bordeaux and Lyon, where demonstrations were called after noon.

Since the government has delayed rising fuel taxes – the origin of the response to yellow vests – and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, has announced measures in favor of purchasing power, the number of participants dropped sharply (287,710 people). the first Saturday against 58,600 last week).

On the other hand, the president of the National Assembly (deputies), Richard Ferrand, denounced the attempted fire of his house in Finistère, in the north-west of the country, provoking the immediate support from Macron.

"No legitimate violence or intimidation against a parliamentarian," said the French president. And, he said: "Richard Ferrand has all my solidarity."

The opposition also expressed solidarity with Ferrand, Socialist leader Olivier Faure and the president of the National Regroupement (RN, former National Front), the far right Marine Le Pen.

The president of the National Assembly (deputies) of the party The Republic in March (LRM) said that it was "a serious act" of the attempt to burn his property, whose "malicious origin is not in doubt".

Ferrand, 56, Macron's political ally, posted two photos on the social network Twitter that show a window pane burned at his home.

The gendarmerie, on the other hand, found a blanket, tire remains and a rag soaked in gasoline.

In recent weeks of social events in France with the "yellow vests", about fifty deputies have been victims of similar acts, according to parliamentary sources.

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