, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said Sunday .
Dozens more were arrested in smaller protests in cities including Nantes, Montpellier, Strasbourg, Bordeaux and Toulouse.Castaner claimed that there were"few demonstrators" among at the protesters Saturday 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.
The police, who had initially authorised the demonstration but declared it illegal after it turned violent, used tear gas and water cannon to try quell the unrest. The interior ministry put the number of demonstrators at 28,600 nationwide but the organisers said nearly 40,000 people had rallied - a far cry from the estimated 282,000 who took part in the first big day of protests on Nov 17, 2018.
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