Police fire tear gas at health workers protest in Paris

Paris police fired tear gas during a protest led by French health-care workers on Tuesday, saying that fringe groups hijacked the peaceful demonstration, overturning at least one car and hurling projectiles at police lines. “Violent groups are trying to disrupt a peaceful protest by health-care workers,“ the Paris police prefecture said in a Tweet. Embedded in the tweet was video footage of several protesters pushing an overturned car into the middle of a cobbled avenue. Health-care workers gathered as p