Gérald Darmanin said that such a large number of injured police officers is a rarity. He added that 291 people were arrested during the riots. In Paris, radical demonstrators hurled projectiles at police and smashed shop windows. Several people started the fire, which spread to the building and forced firefighters to intervene. A policeman is injured by a Molotov cocktail.
Some 782,000 people took part in May Day protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform, including 112,000 in Paris, the country’s interior ministry said. Turnout was significantly higher than the May Day 2022 protest, but lower than the biggest protests against pension reform this year.
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