French yellow vest protesters set life-threatening fires, smashed up luxury stores and clashed with police in the 18th straight weekend of demonstrations against President Macron.
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.PARIS — French yellow vest protesters set life-threatening fires, smashed up luxury stores and clashed with police Saturday in theLarge plumes of smoke rose above the rioting on Paris' landmark Champs-Elysees Avenue, and a mother and her child were just barely saved from a building blaze.
After the weekly protests dwindled recently, protesters were hoping to breathe new life into their movement against a president who they see as favoring the elite.The violence started Saturday when protesters threw smoke bombs and other objects at officers along the famed avenue — scene of repeated past rioting — and started pounding on the windows of a police van, prompting riot police to retreat.
Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said up to 8,000 demonstrators were in Paris on Saturday, including 1,500"ultraviolent ones that are there to smash things up."
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