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France avoids a repeat of last week's looting as 70,000 police and nearly 1,000 arrests contain Saturday's mass protests

Clashes between protesters and riot police in Paris, as largely peaceful nationwide marches turned violent by evening despite a 70,000-strong deployment that prevented the arson seen a week earlier.
Clashes between protesters and riot police in Paris, as largely peaceful nationwide marches turned violent by evening despite a 70,000-strong deployment that prevented the arson seen a week earlier.
Riots in Paris. Activists have called a further day of protests for 31 October after Saturday's marches drew between 410,000 and 800,000 people nationwide.
Riots in Paris. Activists have called a further day of protests for 31 October after Saturday's marches drew between 410,000 and 800,000 people nationwide.

The interior ministry put Saturday's turnout at 410,000, while the CGT union claimed 800,000. Paris officials blamed the evening clashes on roughly 500 rioters. The Louvre, Musée d'Orsay and Grand Palais stayed shut as police rerouted marches away from city centres. Activists have called another day of protests for 31 October, and Marine Le Pen was due to launch her presidential campaign on Sunday.

Last week's looters sacked 32 of 34 stores at Marseille's Centre Bourse mall.

President Emmanuel Macron banned protests by groups with 'no legitimate authority'.

The Trappes gunman reportedly targeted black people and Arabs to avenge the looting.

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