Police action in the middle of a crowd

(15 Dec 2018) Some scuffles broke out on Saturday between protesters and police on the sidelines of largely peaceful yellow vest demonstrations near the Paris’ Champs-Elysees boulevard. Riot police fired small amounts of tear gas and sprayed groups of protesters to disperse them as they were heading down the side streets off the main avenue. Paris police say 85 people have been detained in the French capital on the fifth straight weekend of protests by the yellow vests movement. It emerged mid-November as a protest against fuel tax increases and morphed into an expression of rage against the government Police say of those detained, 46 people have been arrested. No details have been given about why they were taken into custody. About 8,000 police and 14 armored vehicles were deployed in Paris for the demonstration, after similar protests in recent weekends turned violent, with protesters smashing and looting stores and setting up burning barricades in the streets.

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