About 100 people have been detained after a major protest in Paris seeking a global climate deal turned violent, Paris’s police chief said…
…The state of emergency was declared after the recent extremist attacks that resulted in the deaths of 130 people in the French capital.
Mr Cadot said on Sunday about 100 people found to have projectiles or other suspicious objects were detained.
Police fired numerous rounds of tear gas on protesters near the Place de la Republique to disperse them.
The protesters were gathering ahead of critical global warming talks outside Paris.
Earlier about two hundred protesters, some wearing masks, fought with police on a street leading to the Place de la Republique square – a gathering place for Parisians since the terror attacks in the capital on November 13th…
…Demonstrators carried banners calling for the defence of the world’s climate, and democracy.
A march planned for Sunday in the city ahead of the UN climate change summit taking place at Le Bourget outside the capital was banned by police under the state of emergency imposed after the November 13th attacks.
Using the state of emergency rules, police had previously put 24 green activists under house arrest, saying they were suspected of planning violent protests against the summit.