More than a hundred “yellow vest” demonstrators have been arrested in Paris in a reappearance of the grassroots protest movement amid discontent around France over rising prices and unpopular reforms by President Macron.
Mobile riot police intervened swiftly to break up unannounced, and therefore illegal, protests by several hundred people wearing gilets jaunes, some in masks, around the Place de la République and also near the Champs Elysées on Saturday. Most of those detained were fined for “gathering with the intention of committing violence or damaging property”.
The demonstrators were responding to calls on social media to “occupy the streets of Paris” and create a “black September” with a “revolt against the traitors who govern us”. Similar small protests appeared in Toulouse, Lyons and other
