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Added on the 01/05/2024 19:19:40 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Scuffles break out between young demonstrators and police in eastern Paris, as civil servants and rail workers prepare to march on the capital against government reform plans. IMAGES
The first clashes break out in the Saint-Ambroise district of Paris, barely an hour after the May Day parade set off from the Place de la République, with projectiles being thrown and tear gas being fired. IMAGES
The Paris procession of the May Day demonstration arrives at Place de la Nation. Police forces try to disperse the crowd of demonstrators with tear gas and charges. IMAGES
Police and demonstrators continue clashing on day 12 of a fuel price revolt in Ecuador, that has claimed six lives and injured dozens. An estimated 14,000 protesters are taking part in the mass show of discontent countrywide against rising hardship in an economy hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic. IMAGES
Demonstrators clash with police on a main road in Quito on the ninth day of Indigenous-led fuel price protests. The head of Ecuador's armed forces has denounced as a "grave threat" to democracy the wave of protests that have triggered several regional states of emergency and a curfew in the capital Quito. IMAGES
Demonstrators and police clash in Corsica during a march in support of Yvan Colonna, the pro-independence activist who was jailed for the assassination of the prefect Erignac in 1998. Colonna was violently attacked by a fellow prisoner on Wednesday. IMAGES