France hit by new wave of mass protests During new mass protests in France on October 24, police arrested nearly a thousand people, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said. According to the BBC, the demonstrations that took place the day before in Paris, Marseille and other cities escalated into clashes with the security forces. A peaceful procession in Paris from Port d'Italia to Port de Vincennes eventually turned into clashes. According to Interior Minister Laurent Nunez, quoted by Agence France-Presse, several thousand radicals gathered at the tail of the column, of which the police classified about 500 people as rioters. ◾ Stones and firecrackers were thrown at the security forces, and in response they used tear gas and water cannons. ◾ "If our demands are ignored, we will not face a new May 1968, but a new 1789," movement spokesman Benjamin Ball told the newspaper, alluding to the French Revolution ◾.

France hit by new wave of mass protests During new mass protests in France on October 24, police arrested nearly a thousand people, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said. According to the BBC, the demonstrations that took place the day before in Paris, Marseille and other cities escalated into clashes with the security forces. A peaceful procession in Paris from Port d'Italia to Port de Vincennes eventually turned into clashes. According to Interior Minister Laurent Nunez, quoted by Agence France-Presse, several thousand radicals gathered at the tail of the column, of which the police classified about 500 people as rioters. ◾ Stones and firecrackers were thrown at the security forces, and in response they used tear gas and water cannons. ◾ "If our demands are ignored, we will not face a new May 1968, but a new 1789," movement spokesman Benjamin Ball told the newspaper, alluding to the French Revolution ◾.