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French police arrested 22 people during a protest rally in Paris today against police brutality and the controversial security law.
Cars were set on fire and several shop windows were destroyed at the beginning of the demonstration, according to images broadcast on French television. A burning truck could be seen on a highway, a dense cloud of black smoke covering the sky at that point.
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The demonstration began in the afternoon at the Porte de Lila, on the north side of Paris, under heavy police surveillance, a week after a previous demonstration in Paris that ended in violent clashes. There, groups of young people and union representatives met to march towards the Plaza de la República.
They shouted slogans like: “Enough is enough!” or, “Security Law, no, no. Social Security, yes, yes” and held banners with the slogan “Darmanen resigns” or “France: the land of police rights.”
Missiles were fired at the security forces, who responded with tear gas. “Everybody hates the police,” shouted some of the participants, “anti-capitalists.” Barricades were also burned. French Interior Minister Geral Darmanen said police had made 22 arrests in the afternoon.
Minister of the Interior denounces thugs who “destroy democracy”
“The hooligans are destroying democracy,” French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanen said today at the end of a demonstration in Paris against the Universal Security Law, which was marked by vandalism.
“I support our police and gendarmes, once again they took possession in a very violent way,” he wrote on his Twitter account as the demonstration began to dissolve in the center of Paris.
In total, 52,350 protesters took part in about 90 demonstrations in France against the law, including 5,000 in Paris, according to the Interior Ministry.
There were “64 arrests (throughout France),” the interior minister said, adding that eight members of the security forces were among the wounded.
According to these figures, the mobilization is decreasing compared to last week, when 133,000 citizens marched in France, of which 46,000 in Paris.
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