Riot police fire teargas at protesters as Paris demonstrations turn violent

Riot police have clashed with thousands of protesters as a climate march and yellow vest protest descended into violence. Members of the anarchist group Black Bloc infiltrated the climate march before smashing shop fronts and torching bins. Police then used teargas against a separate gilets jaunes protest after demonstrators gathered on the Champs Élysées, which is out of bounds to demonstrations since protesters torched newspaper kiosks there in March, to mark their 45th week of protests. Over 120 people w
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