Police clash with protesters across Paris who threw petrol bombs in violent Labour Day march

French police fired teargas and clashed with demonstrators in Paris when Labour Day marches became anti-government demonstrations against the rise in the retirement age.
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In Paris, the trade union-led demonstration began peacefully with many families joining in, but police began to fire teargas and clashed with protesters who threw projectiles, bins and petrol bombs. One officer was seriously injured by a petrol bomb and treated in hospital for burns.
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[@peregrineslim4446]

You don't hear about French protests because the news is editorially suppressed.

[@ygg4289]

Twitter and youtube can help you

[@bensims7501]

No, I've not hear anything about it either 😉

[@quentinc6295]

@@elyrexo very smart comment

[@PeaceAndCommunisim]

Long live anarchy

[@JoneqshMomin-rh9bu]

​@@quentinc6295ni hu😅

[@mdb3040]

If we tried this in uk would it be classed as “annoying” under the new public order bill?

[@johnross2924]

It would be classed as a hate crime 😂

[@mdb3040]

@@johnross2924 most likely 🙄

[@benewgillian6823]

You've got to shake a bit those corrupt Tories bullies from their seats... Greetings from France

[@freedomforrealz5969]

Challenge accepted?

[@AemondBlackKiller]

Why would we try this in the uk. France is failing due to Russia controlling its opposition in politics

[@LoveHandle4890]

“The people shouldn’t be afraid of the government. The government should be afraid of the people.”

[@titteryenot4524]

And again. Are you just gonna copy and paste this all night?

[@ygg4289]

At least one french today lost a hand because of little bombs of the police. During Macron years, hundreds of french lost eyes and hands... So they are frightening but the power frightened 2

[@YutabApangan]

Support from Iran💕🍃 Violence is always from the police side,💥People have the Right To Defend Themselves in Any Way They Are Able To It was police forces who blinded the innocent Yellow Vests‼️ Free Iran from deadly regime💪

[@vaninec]

Any progress?

[@thorkushari4027]

​@@ygg4289Macron is a disgusting petty dictator just like his creepy mentor at the WEF

[@madrugadao000]

Londoners should learn🤦🏻‍♂️in Paris you get demonstrations and protests once a week , in the U.K. the only reason ppl go on the street it’s for the Queen’s funeral and the king’s coronation

[@AlexDeLarge77]

Really? Do you live in London? There’s demonstrations every week, multiple in nature. The only difference is in London they are not violent in nature. You’re talking garbage.

[@th3british169]

It Only Takes 1 Person to Start A Riot... its just a waiting game until somebody to grow some balls and actually stands up.

[@tomsgarden5141]

dont forget clap for Boris

[@Greenpoloboy3]

I remembered about these protests today and wondered if they was still going on. not heard anything for a while now, until this came up

[@public.public]

Been going on for months.

[@johnins0mnia584]

​@@public.public Really? It's felt more like a century.

[@public.public]

The Tories know what is coming. They are provoking it. That is why they want to shut down democratic rights like the right to strike and the right to protest as soon as possible

[@syll.3493]

it has not stopped but stream media do not talk about it.

[@Greenpoloboy3]

@@syll.3493 Must be in French media often still though?

[@krisztiankramli3038]

We all have to rise up worldwide, same time everywhere !! Need to remove the leadership and must heave to take back the financial system into public hands ! Private group of people can not own banks ( be clear they are criminals and they are did very bad things to keep banks private (all banks are private )!!! We need to end the FED and this corrupt financial system ! Do not comply with CBDC people ,it is gonna be full slavery in this criminals hand !

[@ziekiee7966]

rise up for what...?

[@hansmohammed5486]

@@ziekiee7966 better life?

[@LoveHandle4890]

You go France. Long live the revolution!🇫🇷

[@adamquirke6024]

Yeah lets applaud people who throw petrol bombs

[@kirillzotin1983]

You sure those aren't agents provocateurs? Did that for the purpose of further clamping down on people's freedoms..

[@public.public]

@@adamquirke6024 "Yeah lets applaud people who throw petrol bombs" because they don't indiscriminately use chemical warfare.

[@public.public]

@@DigbyTray Police that protect the theft of democracy deserve what they get. Democracy is more important than mere mannerism. In 1968 the petrol bombs were supplied by government agents. This is an evidenced fact.

[@johnelliott3796]

They re elected him lol.

[@lastChang]

French 🇫🇷 Macron's career is over after his drinking Chinese tea in Beijing.

[@jinkazamafake]

If only he learnt how to suppress a protest from great leader Xi

[@jjjqjjwnw105]

Pm modick too

[@public.public]

People voted against LePen. That is how he was voted in. The majority didn't vote at all. And neither Macron or LePen in the last round were seen as any real meaningfull political choice.

[@kristoforlearmonth4939]

This has been happening for the past ten years!!

[@syll.3493]

not on that level. people are really angry

[@raimobrunning3657]

I get the feeling that French people aren't 100% satisfied with Macron.

[@SchultzDorinda]

It's not just dissatisfaction, we hate him and the rest of the corrupt system

[@user-rn9gb7hz4l]

Франция поёт Марсельезу, потомки Наполеона снова хотят своего короля отправить на Гильотину...

[@claudebenoit5228]

Flic, quel taf! Jusqu'a 64 ans !?

[@MANI75108]

52

[@nemesisone8927]

the slaves stand up, its about time.

[@hugoantoine9857]

It's not Labour's day, it's Worker's day

[@kennyb5537]

it's not only about age retirement, it's about letting private entities manage the pension money .... and invest in a very liberal fashion ... the age is another detail

[@michaelcharlesthearchangel]

That popping sound is of an incendiary grenade going off in the hand of its thrower during cooking 🍳. 👨🏼‍✈️🔥👨‍✈️🔥💥👋💥🔥🔥👩🏾‍✈️

[@lagunabeachtrashpickup.cle6293]

The people that don't want to work protesting being asked to do more work that they are not doing on Labor Day.

[@bloodywanker781]

Respect to French people from Poland FR PL

[@maxalfredjoelasemoule3993]

Violences & provocations come from two sides, first & foremost, x-left then police in response. The people of France is pi_ssed for sure but there are lots of activists whose purpose is nothing else but mayhem.

[@ridwan3709]

what age the retirement day in france is? in my country, 55

[@enrique967]

He raised it from 62 to 64 years.

[@ThePopeSong]

Meanwhile in the UK with 68..

[@snag1508]

Sri Lanka?

[@johnbrookhaven7134]

Kid in usa retire at 67 to 70

[@fozaya]

Meanwhile in Japan, would be with 70age

[@frontenac5083]

*Don't show South Korea if you say the video is about Paris.* *Thumb down for misleading title.*

[@jeannpierregillardd8036]

FORCE ET HONNEUR AU PEUPLE UNIS DE FRANCE CONTRE L ETAT PROFOND .

[@jonsmith1162]

Excited to see what anti semitic nonsense The Guardian will come up with this week.

[@YutabApangan]

Support from Iran💕🍃 Violence is always from the police side,💥People have the Right To Defend Themselves in Any Way They Are Able To !! It was police forces who blinded the innocent Yellow Vests‼️ Free Iran from deadly regime💪

[@bensims7501]

Iran and France are slightly different

[@adamquirke6024]

These people have been vandalising their own towns and cities as well as throwing petrol bombs around. These protestors are not innocent

[@thehomosexualhistoryoftheu4197]

And then what? Oh and the ice caps are melting. Expect more scarcity.

[@adamquirke6024]

@@thehomosexualhistoryoftheu4197 you want people who are breaking the law, hurting people and damaging the environment with fires and petrol bombs to have their demands taken seriously?

[@chavzone]

@@thehomosexualhistoryoftheu4197 Who are you talking to? What is your point? Do you have a plan? Or do you just enjoy spreading your miserable, nonconstructive cynicism everywhere?

[@skypinkk]

Power to the people

[@benstroo1157]

Het zal hier nog op Holvoet gaan zeg, altijd individueel .🎉

[@protip8468]

Its seems like Baba Wanga had right...

[@Ura_Jack_Off]

The Pouvoir au Grenouilles! 🇫🇷🐸

[@MANI75108]

On va vous manger les rosbifs 😂

[@Ura_Jack_Off]

@@MANI75108 🥺😂

[@MANI75108]

@@Ura_Jack_Off 10-53 😂😘

[@imammumbata194]

In 2014 in ukraine when people protested it was democracy and here it is not?

[@Alias-gy3tz]

What happened in Ukraine in 2014 was an orchestrated coup.

[@goldfish2379]

No it is not.

[@SchultzDorinda]

Ukraine : Coup d'etat arranged by the US and supported by the Neonazis. France : People rising up for themselves. Take your pick

[@rogeriosimoes5577]

légion d'honneur pour ce lui qui a fait ça

[@jimthomas1133]

Sa fond en bouche comme un pavé dans la gueule d'un flic

[@mikewatson5460]

It is getting very close to the people of the world rising up against the controlling governments everywhere it’s about time that governments were put in there place once and for all, and start to sever the public and not just themselves

[@thehomosexualhistoryoftheu4197]

And then what happens? Got any details on your plan?

[@nightly765]

By rioting in the streets, injuring police that's just trying to do their job, destroying property, theft, and disrupting the public? Sure, if you want an anarchy.

[@liamvickerman4745]

@@thehomosexualhistoryoftheu4197 And then what happens? Got any details on your plan?.... go take a peek inside a history book kiddo.

[@public.public]

@@thehomosexualhistoryoftheu4197 Those who think the rich getting richer and everyone else getting poorer is an ok economic formula are delusional. The rich do not own the patent on the invention called money so WE can decide what it is for and how it is used.

[@public.public]

@@nightly765 The police are assaulting all demonstrators and residents of Paris with chemical warfare... Doing their job? Getting peaceful demonstrators to react to that assault is their job? Get real.

[@-Juney-]

It doesn’t matter what the protest is. Seeing those police being set on fire with a crude and horrible thing a bunch of rioters made is awful. Nobody deserves that.

[@WalterWhite-nw8eh]

I wish this was a daily occurrence.

[@teodytrinidad9497]

Cleared

[@edwinswennen3779]

And why did the police fire treargas? 🧐

[@ingeneralGREEN]

Put fire everywhere

[@rhysbach8668]

Someone's gotta pay for the damages.. Raise it another 2 years 👍

[@1Bonnie777]

When someone decides not to let YOU have YOUR money, it's because they're stealing. The people aren't criminals; they're POW's.

[@albertoray5888]

Roasted cops with mushroom sauce it was a cool wee-kend

[@Wazza46]

Protests started peacefully untill the French police stated hitting people with batons..

[@melvinthapelfin]

They dont hit hard enough 😂

[@mlx39996]

thats so not true

[@public.public]

The police are indiscriminately using chemical warfare.

[@paulgrieve7031]

I feel sorry for the kids of France. They’ll have to work till 64 like the farmers who put food on their tables. These kids will support a pension rise to “68” or “70” once they themselves have retired. If they haven’t died fighting beforehand.

[@adamquirke6024]

oh no what a terrible thing to work lol, 64 isn't a shocking age to work till

[@thehomosexualhistoryoftheu4197]

Three additional kids are born every second. The habitat is collapsing all around us. Expect more civil unrest.

[@chrismay3241]

@@adamquirke6024 Is that a tasty boot? because you got it almost all the way down your throat

[@public.public]

The police are protecting the theft of democracy from the people.

[@Alias-gy3tz]

@@adamquirke6024 You can work for as long as you want. It is about people's lives being changed without their consent. It's about the bigger picture, government control, greed and corruption. Do try to keep up?

[@TheBlackClockOfTime]

Looks mostly peaceful to me.

[@mthodman5377]

May the foreign press continue to cover our struggle, and may citizens around the world who feel oppressed by an unjust system continue to comment and share widely! We need your support to give maximum visibility and legitimacy to our revolt, a better and fairer world is possible, but we have to fight for it, no gift will be given to us, we are masters of our common destiny . With love, for workers around the world.

[@guyfoucher4805]

I am french and I can claim we will not stop face to this man

[@RichardCarpenter-or9mq]

Global police soldiers 😢

[@paulgrieve7031]

I’m a worker-at the Guardian.

[@Audios2010]

Never give up people of your Nations you are the life blood!! Not the government

[@hongkhanhle1607]

Vậy mới được chứ

[@michaelak1719]

FRANCE❤🎉👏👍

[@obversant_nomad]

War on all fronts

[@davidjon426]

Yes down with the govt

[@jackwild8019]

In memory of Jacques Mesrine, the last French anarchist, shot dead by the forces of President D'Estaing in 1979 🇷🇺🚔🇷🇺

[@muhammadrasul7334]

Just no noxxc

[@chow24]

This should be happening at Dover docks

[@public.public]

why there?

[@chow24]

@@public.public look it up or Yorkshire rose cha..el

[@goldfish2379]

What - destroy our own cities and act like the animals we want to keep out of our beautiful country? No.

[@CataclismiumBothered-nz7kk]

I smell burnt pork

[@Engineers-bl8bx]

You need to carry not batons but a fire extinguisher

[@The_Real_Doom_Slayer]

(some of the actually do)

[@pisoteado]

Era só uma LMG

[@user-bu9nb8wr6e]

London next.

[@YouSpedd]

0:32 le mec en noir a eu chaud c'est le cas de le dire ^^

[@JoeJohn777]

Grilled chicken !

[@AnatemaEterno]

If french people used that same strength in cleaning their neighbourhoods of religious extremists...😅

[@gorkytpa2976]

brave people!!1

[@richbaker4544]

GTA France Edition

[@xuenf]

0:50 did they arrest Albert Einstein?

[@mircomirco-zm6ji]

Macron should ask Trudeau for help when Paris is nice and clean thanZelenskys wife can go for shopping around

[@MooglesNest]

Do you still really think it’s about the retirement age? It’s about Macron making a deal with Blackstone so that workers have to save their pensions within the companies, mostly for Blackstone’s companies, instead of to the state. But The Guardian being The Guardian they won’t spoil their investors name.

[@Sabundy]

Exactly

[@joelmadrid2193]

"PANAMA RELOCATION TOURS!! WITH JACKIE!! 🙋 😊 👍❤️👈"

[@c_lo01]

Fiery but mostly peaceful -CNN

[@public.public]

The police are indiscriminately using chemical warfare.

[@mauricelacroix7422]

Vive la Revolution vive

[@paulus514]

vive la revolution 💙🤍❤vive la france💯

[@f0rtuzer0]

Gotta love the French. British are so gelded.

[@spicehedge]

British is just a passport these days

[@adamquirke6024]

No we just have work ethics and can get on with work and living a life at the same time. If you are British, why do you not know this?

[@public.public]

@@adamquirke6024 Get off your knees. Making billionaires into trillionaires isn't a profession OR a vocation. It is slavery.

[@goldfish2379]

No, we have the balls to VOTE for what we want, not run around screaming and setting fire to our own cities. We are patriots, not demented toddlers. The French want a 40 year retirement, with their children and grandchildren paying 60% tax to fund it.

[@Master_of_Critique]

@@goldfish2379lol yeah it takes “balls” to cast a vote for someone who will ultimately betray you, then spend the next years complaining about it. Facing the police and risking serious injury or jailtime- yeah what “cowards”

[@sharik696]

прям военная реконструкция в россии на праздник 9 мая =))

[@AcktovKovacs]

Clashes didn't start as police fired teargas. It started when protesters started trowing stones. I'm french and against this reform, but police did't start it, try to be a a bit more objective Guardian

[@goldfish2379]

Why do you want to laze around doing nothing, while your children and grandchildren pay 60% tax to support you? That is disgusting.

[@derpal5284]

Oooooof course the police started it. 😂 Don‘t be ridiculous. Is it your first May, 1st, Guardian intern?

[@public.public]

The police are protecting the theft of democracy from the people.

[@ippitblack5289]

Solidarität aus Germany♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@CJ-qg6pc]

Poor people fight against poor people to protect the rich people and their interests

[@user-ld1ls6si5d]

Solidarity with the French workers

[@americanninny4918]

Loosers

[@anntan734]

The French are different from the British they don't accept Nonsense

[@K.R.I.P.A.C]

I saw video were police kicked protestors like it wasn’t a humans maybe it’s easier to protect that people as police should do

[@adamquirke6024]

I've seen videos of protestors assaulting the police, as well as burning their cities down and throwing petrol bombs

[@mlx39996]

its not like the protesters treat police any better. its mutual

[@Alias-gy3tz]

@@mlx39996 The police are supposed to protect the people. Not instigate violence at a peaceful protest.

[@user-io2ry2up3d]

Protesters aren't humans

[@mlx39996]

@@Alias-gy3tz the protesters are the ones who get violent and target the police

[@dianelopes8199]

throwing petrol bombs at the police is not a protest ,the government made the rules not the police , there still someone's husband or some one's dad ,but throwing petrol just not right in any way ,

[@counterf8515]

Yeah, it all coulda been so much easier, had they just said please.

[@public.public]

Ignore million size demonstrations and large demonstrations for months then EXPECT it to become more violent especially since the demonstrations are against democracy AND pensions being stolen.

[@Alias-gy3tz]

What is your opinion on the police brutality?

[@dianelopes8199]

@@counterf8515 if the police had thrown petrol bombs in the crowd they would have been a out roar and rightly so , and the police brutality has been terrible , but you have boots- sticks- batons- go to government buildings get out the one who caused you grieve ,but thrown petrol at someone ...nope

[@SteveXNYC]

Protesters wasting their time without a AR15..

[@Redsauce101]

American detected.

[@counterf8515]

American wasting their AR15, at the militia meet.

[@Rafale01]

You have tons of AR-15 and what you do against your governement ? Nothing.

[@mrjimmcdaniels]

Get ready for globalism.

[@alessandroboscolo1861]

Yessssss

[@ispeaku759]

We must sponsor the protesters like west sponsored the maidan in ukraine in 2013

[@Cba409]

This is mostly peaceful by CNN standards.

[@AlexDeLarge77]

I blame Brexit.

[@public.public]

The brexiters are the people who wouldn't ever protest against their pensions being stolen.

[@SchultzDorinda]

Correlation : 0

[@leolion3942]

This is incredible but predictable……firstly incredible because the french have the lowest retirement age in the EU and they must be delusional if they expect the current retirement age to carry on…….secondly predictable in so much as the french have traditionally been rather volatile!!

[@Alias-gy3tz]

Any comment on the police brutality?

[@goldfish2379]

@@Alias-gy3tz I think the police are being very restrained. If not, every one of those protesters would be dead. Et voila.... retirement problems solved.

[@elenamagnaldi9557]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹👊👊👊👊👊

[@nicholasgerrish6022]

Yes, poor little,dears, having to do,a days work! The French have always been a reactionary lot, hence the necessity for the CRS. They’ll restore order and there will be a great number of badly bruised backsides and ego’s before all this subsides. As to the comment that “ One may work as long as one likes,” that is a young person speaking, who probably hasn’t benefited from work of any sort. He’ll end up,being put to work, once Marine gets in!

[@jimthomas1133]

Tu connais mal les français my friend

[@nicholasgerrish6022]

@@jimthomas1133 I certainly don’t know the French that well, but they tend to show themselves as a stroppy lot. It’s a national trait!

[@yannickcossu3146]

Les robots cop tombe comme des victimes honte au CRS 👍😏💪🇫🇷

[@frontenac5083]

Learn to spell.

[@mariotagliaferro3260]

VIVA IL POPOLO PARIGINO.

[@dustinmiller2775]

Well, they should have thought of that BEFORE they gave up their guns.

[@counterf8515]

What exactly is it you are doing with yours? Dip💩

[@chrismay3241]

Ah yes because having police and protesters firing at each other would be an improvement... Let me guess you are from that asylum of gun nuts called the USA

[@goldfish2379]

Yaawn.

[@ianrobinson9565]

Where is the pension money going to come from?

[@bmolitor615]

oooh, the crickets regarding the arithmetic! we do so love posturing and scampering about all in black and setting fire to things, but the arithmetic, oh my!

[@Redsauce101]

It came from a lifetime of payments from their work salary, genius.

[@bmolitor615]

@@Redsauce101 It's a pyramid scheme, genius. [and no, not because all planetary governments are run by a guy named Ponzi, but because of post WWII population structures, among other fancy math-y type factors that neither you nor the French rioters wanna understand.]

[@counterf8515]

​@@bmolitor615 crock of 💩

[@public.public]

"Where is the pension money going to come from?" Said like governments have not known the demographics for the last 50 years. They didn't plan the economy except to continue making billionaires into trillionaires. TAX THE BILLIONAIRES

[@lemmejustreadthethings]

Is there even a point to these "protests" anymore?

[@public.public]

The police are protecting the theft of democracy from the people.

[@goldfish2379]

No, itt is just the French being French. It means nothing.

[@haalandpersone]

paix les immigrants

[@al-hassan9200]

FRENCH DO IT BEST !!!!!!!!

[@nodinitiative]

Deploy the panzers.

[@robertswierczynski1601]

hot dog 🐕‍🦺

[@zoolook1000]

☂️🇨🇵⚘️