First published at 02:38 UTC on January 20th, 2019.
Video taken from RT. - A tenth consecutive Saturday of Yellow Vest protests have taken place nationwide in France - over what they call rising living costs and government policies. - The French government has registered 84,000 people as participants…
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Video taken from RT. - A tenth consecutive Saturday of Yellow Vest protests have taken place nationwide in France - over what they call rising living costs and government policies. - The French government has registered 84,000 people as participants in today's yellow vest demonstrations. The experience of the last few weeks has shown that the participation rate is higher than the government admits.
"Yellow vests - black rage": In France, tens of thousands of people took part in protests of the "yellow vests" against the government for the tenth Saturday in a row. The demonstrators rejected the offer of head of state Emmanuel Macron for a "citizen dialogue" and demanded his resignation. According to the Ministry of the Interior, around 84,000 people took part in the protests nationwide.
In Paris, several thousand people took part in a peaceful march. They carried posters with the inscription "Macron - Démission" (Macron - resignation) and flagellated the use of hard rubber balls (so-called flashballs), tear gas and batons by the riot police. At the end of the march there were clashes with policemen at the Army Museum in the Invalidendom. The police used water cannons and tear gas to attack masked demonstrators who threw stones and bottles.
Protests were also held in many other cities, including Bordeaux, Marseille and Nancy. Rennes in the west and Lyon in the east reported clashes. In Toulouse alone, there was a record participation of 10,000 activists, according to official figures. Across the country, 80,000 police officers were deployed.
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