Over 100 nabbed in Paris protests

Thousands of people took to the streets of Paris to mark the first anniversary of the yellow vest movement on Saturday. GETTY IMAGES
Thousands of people took to the streets of Paris to mark the first anniversary of the yellow vest movement on Saturday. GETTY IMAGES

PARIS – The police here arrested over 100 people as protests to mark the first anniversary of the anti-government yellow vest movement turned violent.

Police said 147 people were nabbed across the capital.    

Yellow vest (gilets jaunes) rallies took place nationwide on Saturday, a year after they first erupted.

Thousands of protesters thronged the streets.

The protests first erupted in November last year over fuel price rises, but grew to cover wider grievances, including stagnating wages, living costs and economic inequality.(BBC)

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