Thousands join Paris protests as authorities clamp down on disorder
Thousands of protesters are on the streets of Paris for a second weekend. French authorities banned demonstrations in central areas of the city, following violence last weekend. Some 70,000 police have been deployed across France. Al Jazeera’s Virginia Pietromarchi reports.
Several planned marches in major cities in France have been banned by authorities, provoking an uproar by rights groups.
Paris St-Germain's Ligue 1 match against Lyon at the Parc des Princes is pushed back 24 hours as the French capital prepares for another weekend of protests.
More than 300 protesters and police were injured in the Albanian capital Tirana's fiercest clashes in days.
Fresh protests hit France amid heightened security. The protest location was changed last minute in Paris.
Police and elite security forces are out in force in French cities as tens of thousands participate in a new round of protests. The situation is slowing turning tense in some cities like Paris and Marseille.
But what’s happening on the streets is shaping it, too France sneezed, and Europe has again caught the cold. Protests have filled the streets in Lisbon and Madrid, and have ignited into violence in Milan, Brussels and Tirana as well as in French cities.