Police deploy in big numbers and museums shut as France braces for more protests

Police and elite security forces were out in force in French cities as tens of thousands participated in protests on Saturday. The situation turned tense toward the end of protests in several cities, including Paris.

After largely peaceful marches on Saturday, clashes broke out in the evening. But a large-scale police presence, 1,000 arrests and the rerouting of protest routes kept a lid on wholesale vandalism.

Police use tear gas and water cannons in cities across France as hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets.

Thousands of protesters are on the streets of Paris for a second weekend.

Almost 1,000 arrested as police charge crowd in Paris and teargas used to stop protesters reaching other city centres Hundreds of thousands marched in cities across France on Saturday in largely peaceful protests to support schoolchildren’s demands for more teachers and repairs…

Paris braced for a fresh march by students and workers over school funding and soaring living costs Saturday, one week after violent unrest left shops looted and cars burned. The new march was restricted to the city's southeastern edge, away from the centre, as police deployed…

French authorities are preparing for another wave of protests after half a million people took to the streets last weekend.