Thousands attend protests in cities outside of France capital

• Demonstrations have been held in a number of French cities.
• Including Marseille, Nice, Toulon, Lyon, Rennes, Rouen, Caen, Le Havre, and Dieppe.
• Police have used water cannons and tear gas to fend off the protesters.

In a number of French cities, there have been significant turnouts; 320 protests were scheduled to occur nationwide.

The southern cities of Marseille, Nice, and Toulon have seen some of the largest demonstrations, though the figures are hotly disputed.

For the second day in a row, protesters have stopped the port in Marseille.

Hundreds of students and other people have gathered on the rails in Lyon, further to the north, to disrupt trains.

While some masked demonstrators built barricades in Rennes, in the north-west, police used water cannons and tear gas.

Attacks occurred on a police station and a prefecture office in the area. in the Lorient town.

One police officer, Linda Kebab, claimed that some of her coworkers had been brutally abused and that fires had been ignited outside the police station.

The attacks, according to Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, were intolerable and required retribution.

Numerous thousands of people gathered in the northern Normandy cities of Rouen, Caen, Le Havre, and Dieppe.

As some protestors in Rouen threw stones, riot police opened fire with tear gas.

The Paris police informed us that they had been “targeted around the Place de la République” and that tear gas had been used to fend off the “attackers.”

Additionally, they informed us that there are roughly 1000 “troublemakers” among the nonviolent demonstrators, as they had anticipated.

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