More than 1,300 are arrested in France as hundreds of thousands march in a second weekend of protests and clashes
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.
Some 53 police officers were injured when masked rioters hurled fireworks at the end of Saturday's marches. Riot police fired tear gas and water cannon at around 500 hooded youths near Porte de Vincennes in Paris. Clashes also erupted in Marseille, Lyon, Bordeaux and Grenoble. France put 70,000 police and gendarmes on the streets, 10,000 more than the previous weekend's arson and looting.
The CGT union claims 800,000 marched, nearly double the Interior Ministry's 410,000.
The Louvre, Orsay and Picasso museums shut and more than 20 metro stations closed.
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