French Government Meets on Riot Response as Clean-Up Begins
- Macron returns from G-20 in Argentina to meet key ministers
- Government to study ‘all options’ for security, spokesman says
A man looks at a burned out car following protests in Paris on Dec. 2.
Photographer: Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/AFP via Getty Images
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Clean-up crews were at work across Paris after Saturday’s riots as President Emmanuel Macron returned from Argentina and held an emergency cabinet meeting.
Saturday’s “Yellow Vests” protests saw 412 arrests and 133 wounded, including 23 among the security forces, according to the Paris police. There was also violence in Toulouse, Nantes, near Lyon, and in the Ardennes. Rioters burned cars throughout Paris, looted stores and restaurants, and sprayed graffiti on the Arc de Triomphe monument and trashed its interior.