Anger after May Day protesters break into famed Paris hospital

"Several dozen people tried to force the door into the intensive care unit," she told RTL in a separate interview, saying the security forces had turned up 10 minutes later to remove the intruders.

"I don't know if they were looking for a particular injured person. I don't know if it was an invasion or whether they were fleeing something," he said, indicating there was"no damage".French Health Minister Agnes Buzyn described the break-in as"unspeakable". While acknowledging some people may have entered the hospital to seek shelter, she suggested others might have been bent on theft, notably of hi-tech equipment.By Thursday morning, a total of 191 people were still in custody over the Paris unrest, 11 of them minors, prosecutors said.The yellow vest protests erupted in November over social inequality with a show of anger against the policies of Macron, whom opponents accuse of not doing enough for the poor.

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