Paris: yellow vests gather in several places, 103 arrests including some for violence – archyde

They call for a “Black September” to denounce inflation. This Saturday, hundreds of yellow vests gathered in several places in Paris, during undeclared demonstrations. The police headquarters announced in the evening more than 100 arrests, including some for violence and degradation. From 7 a.m., the police intervened on several occasions in various sectors of the capital, in particular Porte de Saint-Cloud, Place de Colombia and Trocadero (16th) to check the identity of a few dozen individuals from the Yellow Vests movement who were trying to regroup on the public highway, indicates the Paris prefecture in a press release. And to specify that it was specified that “such gatherings were not tolerated”. The prefecture then explains that these people were again checked at the end of the morning at the height of the place de l’Étoile (8th) “several of them were verbalized and arrested”. In addition, around 2 p.m., “a group of individuals from the Yellow Vests” gathered in the area of ​​Place de la République (11th) “in order to mingle with a demonstration declared in support of Ukraine” , details the press release. Then “this group quickly improvised a wild procession taking Boulevard Magenta then the Quai de Valmy where some of them, face hidden, set fire to a trash can and overturned a container of waste on the road”. Outrage rebellion, violence … The police, “very reactive and mobile”, immediately intervened to stop the progress of these individuals and proceeded to their arrest, it is further specified. On the instructions of the Prefect of Police “who recalls his firmness with regard to this type of undeclared groupings having the sole purpose of committing abuses”, the intervention of the security forces made it possible to carry out a total of 103 arrests (93 for participation in a group with a view to committing violence or damage; 3 for willful damage, 3 for contempt of rebellion, 4 for violence against the police) and 54 verbalizations during the day.

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