However, tensions soon erupted and violence began, with cars set on fire and riot police deployed. This is now continuing days later and has spread out of Paris to many major cities in France.

French riot police faced "black-block ... more than 7,000 officers deployed in Paris. They echoed the weekly "yellow-vests" protests that have swept France since last November, shaking the ...

France is rushing security reinforcements to its overseas territory of New Caledonia, a crucial foothold for Paris in the ...

The man was filmed hitting the policeman on a Paris bridge ... punching a police officer on a bridge in Paris during a "yellow vest" protest has been detained by police in France.

Three police officers will be tried in Paris for the involuntary homicide ... The revelations turned the case into a symbol of police violence in France, increasingly under the spotlight in ...