Live: A demonstrator died from 'cardiorespiratory arrest' during Paris protests, police say
Özet haber: A demonstrator died from cardiorespiratory arrest during Saturday's protests in Paris, police said Sunday, stressing that the death was not connected to police action or to the clashes that broke out on the margins of the mass demonstrations across the capital. The city's police prefecture said they had detained a "record figure" of 855 people in the capital during the demonstrations. Follow our liveblog for all the latest developments.
A demonstrator died from 'cardiorespiratory arrest' during Paris protests, police say
A 'record' 855 people detained in Paris during protests, police sayVance blames immigration for violence during protests in FranceFire at Limoge's town hall 'has been contained', police prefect tells local media
Police in Paris said they had detained 855 people in the capital during the demonstrations that swept France Saturday. Police said the number detained over Saturday's protests was a "record figure", while deputy mayor Lamia El Aaraje said Paris had been hit by "a level of violence that I believe we had never seen before".
The capital's police prefecture added that 13 police officers and gendarmes had been injured, as well as two firefighters.
Photos: Stéphanie Lecocq and Abdul Saboor, Reuters
In Paris, tens of thousands marched across the east and north of the city in one major march on Saturday, some shouting "Everyone hates the police" and "Macron, resign". Paris Mayor Emmanuel Grégoire stressed that "the overwhelming majority of demonstrators" wanted to "march calmly", but added that "acts of vandalism" were tarnishing their protest.
Riot police launched barrages of tear gas and charged the crowds as demonstrators gathered at Place de la République ahead of the authorised march. One demonstrator, Jules Petrichor, 47, who had brought his son, said: "There was a good atmosphere and then suddenly they (the police) started gassing us, even though nothing was happening. Naturally that worsened things and the hot-heads got hot-headed."
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A fire that devastated the town hall in the French city of Limoges during yesterday's nation-wide protests has been contained, the prefect said." A wild horde" had "deliberately" set fire to the 143-year-old building, whose roof largely collapsed during Saturday's protests, Maurice Barate, prefect for the Haute-Vienne department, told TV news channel LCI.
France's Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said police arrested 1,200 people in protests across the country on Saturday, adding that 150 police were hurt." It's a miracle the toll wasn't higher," he said.
It's not clear how many demonstrators were wounded in the violent clashes with police that broke out on the outskirts of the largely peaceful marches that took place across France, though one 17-year-old boy in Saint-Etienne had his hand blown off by a police stun grenade.
US Vice President JD Vance posted on X Saturday blaming immigration for violence during protests in France, while sharing a video showing the city hall in Limoges on fire." Western liberals imported the third world into France and other countries in the name of diversity and compassion. They ignored fundamental questions of assimilation and compatibility.
They were told it would lead to this and they didn't listen," Vance wrote on X." I pray that France, a beautiful country of amazing people, will stop this madness before more of its landmarks burn," he added. Vance, 42, represents the most nationalist and identitarian wing of the Republican Party, and has been a virulent critic of Europe's immigration policies, which he considers too lax.