French 'yellow vest' protesters shut down glitzy Paris department store Galeries Lafayette

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French 'yellow vests' shut down top Paris department store

PARIS - French"yellow vest" demonstrators occupied a top Parisian department store on Sunday , a day after clashes in the capital on the first anniversary of the protest movement.

The protest came on a second day of demonstrations to mark the anniversary of a leaderless revolt that badly rattled President Emmanuel Macron's centrist government.On Saturday, police in Paris had battled rioters for hours around the southeastern Place d'Italie square, where a yellow vest march was shut down by the authorities after turning violent.

Castaner claimed that there were"few demonstrators" among at the protesters in Paris, who he said were mainly"thugs, brutes who came to fight the security forces and prevent the emergency services from doing their work". In rural France, by contrast, the mood of the anniversary was more festive. Many yellow vests returned to the traffic roundabouts they occupied last year when they began rebelling against Macron's economic policies.

 

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