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Added on the 02/01/2021 11:37:45 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Party-goers leave the site of an illegal mass rave in western France, after police used teargas to disperse the crowd, who defied an 11:00 pm coronavirus curfew to stay on into Saturday afternoon at a race course near Redon in Brittany. Five police officers were injured overnight, authorities said, with one party-goer losing a hand in the clashes. IMAGES
An enormous rave party held in northwestern France since Thursday (31 December 2020) evening and that drew some 2,500 people comes to an end as police carry out checks and party-goers leave the site. IMAGES
A dozen people attempt to demonstrate in front of the headquarters of the magazine Valeurs Actuelles to protest against the publication of a "political fiction" depicting far-left MP Danielle Obono as a slave. On Saturday evening, activists from the Black African Defence League broke into the magazine's premises to denounce "incitement to anti-black hatred". IMAGES
French Prime Minister Jean Castex arrives in Lille as the northern city experiences a resurgence of the Covid pandemic, and where masks are now mandatory in certain public sites. IMAGES
French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire condemns "inexcusable, unspeakable and intolerable acts" as at least a dozen shopping malls and a large number of stores have been looted, and sometimes set on fire, during an outbreak of violence following the police killing of a teenager. IMAGES