French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo were among the first to condemn Saturday’s violent clashes and lootings in the French capital driven by the Yellow Jackets movement
Mayor HidalgoCastaner said more than 1,400 police officers had been mobilized and that he had given an order to respond to the"unacceptable attacks with the greatest firmness."
He said the protests still remained small compared with the early days of the movement, with an estimated 8,000 people on the streets Saturday."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,
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