A total of 457 people are arrested and 441 security forces injured in latest nationwide protests against French President Emmanuel Macron's pensions reform, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin says
There were a lot of demonstrations and some of them turned violent, notably in Paris, the French interior minister says.
Speaking to the CNews channel on Friday morning, Darmanin also said that there had been 903 fires lit in the streets of Paris on Thursday during by far the most violent day of protests since they began in January. Police had warned that anarchist groups were expected to infiltrate the Paris march and young men wearing hoods and facemasks were seen smashing windows and setting fire to uncollected rubbish in the latter stages of the demonstration.Darmanin, a rightwing hardliner in Macron's centrist government, dismissed calls from protesters to withdraw the pensions reform which cleared parliament last week in controversial circumstances.
Elsewhere on Thursday, the entrance to Bordeaux city hall was set on fire during clashes in the southwestern wine-exporting hub.
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