Aftermath of violent clashes with protestors

French president Emmanuel Macron met some national police units yesterday to show his support after Paris became a theatre of violence and destruction during a weekend protest.

Mr Macron had a “long exchange” over lunch in a police station in eastern Paris with members of the CRS police units that maintain public order and police officers that control demonstrations.

The Paris police chief has said officers had physical confrontations with demonstrators using hammers, gardening tools, bolts, aerosol cans and rocks. Saturday’s demonstration against increased taxes and living costs devolved into France’s worst urban riot in a decade. More than 130 people were injured, including 23 police officers, and 412 people were arrested.

0 A yellow vests – gilets jaunes – protester with the words ‘Macron traitor, the people are hungry’ on her back during protests yesterday following Saturday’s violence