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Police in France have come under attack from missiles and bottles and riot cops attempted to break up a march by hundreds of anti-Emmanuel Macron protestors on Sunday. French officers scuffled with demonstrators amid a face-off with angry protestors in central Paris. Violence clashes were captured on film as the police line attempted to hold back the crowd carrying a large banner attacking mandatory Covid vaccination and health passports.
Police can be seen striking demonstrations with batons and riot police with shields attempted to push the marchers back.
Bottles were launched at police as the protest descended into chaos.
Officers later appeared to switch tactics and allow the march to pass but with a heavy police presence.
At one point the protestors serge forward threatening to break through the police cordon at the head of the march.
A number of protestors wore yellow high-vis tops a symbol of the so-called yellow vest movement in France.
The yellow vest movement was originally sparked by high fuel prices before escalating into a broader anti-Macron movement.
Speaking to Express.co.uk, James Shields, Professor of French politics at Warwick University described the ‘Gilet Jaunes’ as President Macron’s “Achilles heel.”
He said: “This was a spontaneous protest movement that stuck at the heart of France’s government establishment.”
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Macron added that Europe was seeing a fifth wave of infections and that in France there had been an alarming rise in the number of COVID-19 hospital patients and in the rate of spread.
France registered 12,476 new confirmed COVID-19 infections on Tuesday, the highest level since Sept. 8
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