Water guns and tear gas at mega-protest Paris

paris - Soon after the first demonstrators had set out for high fuel prices in Paris, the riot police had been bombarding tear gas and tear gas on Saturday morning with tear gas and water cannon. According to the police, the target was not in the first place the demonstrators, dressed in yellow vests ('gilets jaunes'), but in black dressed rioters and right-wing extremists.

On Saturday, tens of thousands of 'gilets jaunes' argue against the series of price increases of petrol and diesel that the French government of President Macron implements, according to their own claim to reduce car use. According to 'the yellow vests' it is again an extra burden that mainly affects people with low incomes.