Violence marks 4th month of France's yellowvest protests
PARIS • Protesters set fire to a bank and ransacked stores on Paris' landmark shopping street yesterday in a new flare-up of violence as France's yellow vest demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron and his pro-business reforms entered their fourth month.
Protesters threw cobblestones at riot police through clouds of tear gas in front of Paris' Arc de Triomphe monument, which was ransacked at the peak of the protests in December. "But within this 8,000, there are more than 1,500 ultra-violent people who are there just to smash things up, to fight and to attack," he said, adding more than 1,400 police officers were mobilised.
Named after the high-visibility vests that French drivers have to keep in their cars and worn by protesters, the revolt quickly swelled into a broader movement against Mr Macron and his reforms.
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