Reuters reported that on Thursday night, November 5, at the end of a day of national protest in France, protesters gathered in Paris's Place de la Nation by lighting torches and moving display structures.
Nationwide demonstrations were held during a one-day strike by several public sector workers and were largely peaceful, although there were clashes between some protesters and police in Paris and Lyon.
The French Ministry of the Interior announced the number of participants in the national demonstrations at 600,000, while the CGT union, one of the organizers, put the number at 1.6 million.
At the end of the rally in Paris, a clash took place between several demonstrators and the police, and the security forces threw tear gas at the demonstrators and put out at least one small fire on the outskirts of the demonstration site.