This was announced by the French authorities on Tuesday. at least 540 people were detained. as part of protests registered over the past day in the main cities of the country and located in more than 400 policemen and gendarmes were injured.

Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin said that points of violence on the occasion of a demonstration against pension reform, President Emmanuel Macron called for an International Workers’ Day.

“We must punish those who attack the police in the strongest possible way,” said Darmanin, who pushed for the law to be passed. “anti-hooligan law”. At the same time, he explained that among the victims there are “some whose situation is extremely delicate, although nothing threatens their lives.”

The authorities indicated that only in Paris 259 injuredwhile 61 demonstrators have already been injured, 31 of them in the capital, according to the TV channel BFMTV.

“Where is Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s conviction for assaulting police officers?” the minister pointed out in a new attack on French leader Insumis, whom he accused of remaining equidistant and not condemning violence, according to the newspaper. Le Figaro. “Silence makes him an accomplice” said.

(Europe Press)