Police and demonstrators clashed at Paris May Day Rally

In the May Day demonstrations in Paris, the French police have fired tear gas on masked protesters. The clash caused several damages like burning bins, smashing property and hurling projectiles in the rally.

The shop windows were ruined and some threw projectiles at the officers deployed, who were a number of more than 7,000. Around 380 were arrested by the police. The police were forced to use the tear gas and water cannon at the protesters.

Police said that several people were lightly wounded. As per reports, around 38 people, including 14 officers were wounded. The hard-left CGT union, in a statement said, “This current scenario, scandalous and unprecedented, is unacceptable in our democracy”.

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