Yellow Vest Protesters Shift Focus to Paris Business District
- Scuffles in French provincial city, 28 arrests in capital
- Champs-Elysees remains off-limits for Paris demonstrators
Protesters wearing a yellow vest gather in front of "La Grande Arche de la Defense" west of Paris, on April 6.
Photographer: Michel Stoupak/NurPhoto via Getty Images
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Yellow Vest protesters marched to the La Defense business park in Paris to denounce “the art of tax optimization,” keeping France’s weekend demonstrations alive amid a big police presence.
About 6,300 demonstrators nationwide, including 3,100 in Paris, were on the streets on Saturday afternoon, the 21st weekend in a row of protests, according to the Interior Ministry. That compared with 5,600 last week.