Over a million people march across France in a new show of anger against President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform, with protests turning violent in Paris and other cities
Police said those who were detained were suspected mostly of possessing illegal weapons or planning to damage property or commit acts of violence.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin also said on Twitter that 80 people had been arrested during the demonstrations which brought nearly 1.1 million people to the streets across the country. "I found him very authoritarian. He doesn't listen," Solange Le Nuz, a 28-year-old engineer protesting in Paris, told AFP news agency.
In Paris, several hundred black-clad radical demonstrators were breaking windows of banks, shops and fast-food outlets, and destroying street furniture, AFP journalists witnessed.
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