France: violent clashes and arrests in Paris – Virtual Poland

• In France, the ongoing demonstrations against the reforms of labor law

 • 24 people were injured

 • In Nantes police used tear gas
 

For the Republic Square in Paris clashed with police protesting against the reform of the labor code. 24 people were arrested. In total since yesterday throughout France they were arrested almost a hundred and fifty hooligans.

24 people were injured, including one policeman – hit on the head with paving stones. He is in serious condition, has a fractured skull, but his life is not in danger. In the morning he regained consciousness.
 

According to police perpetrators of the riots are a group of young leftists who are taking advantage of the occasion for which they are demonstrations against the reform of the labor code to attack the police, which is a symbol of capitalism. It is not only the French, but also came from Germany and the UK anarchists. According to the Paris prefecture are well organized, they have carefully developed scenarios of attacks on security forces. The backpacks bring stones and Molotov cocktails.
 

 Authorities fear that the reform of the labor code, recognized by the left as too liberal, May 1 can lead to serious unrest.
 

The protests against the “more flexible” labor market, as defined by the reform of the French president, Socialist Francois Hollande and Prime Minister Manuel Valls, attended by police officers – 170 thousand., While the trade unionists who organized demonstrations against the departure of 35 -godzinnego working week – 500 thousand. the demonstrators. According to the AFP in Paris, the streets came more than 50 thousand. people.
 

Prime Minister Manuel Valls called the organizers of the protest “a handful of extremely irresponsible individuals” who have not been able to “well organize and carry out all the action.” In a statement communicated via Twitter (for stays in New Caledonia) announced that the authors of acts of violence will answer to justice for their actions.
 

The President of the student union, “UNEF” William Martinet told AFP that “the use of force by the police was disproportionate to the threat.” The police had used tear gas against the protesters and plastic bullets. To fierce clashes took place in Rennes in north-eastern France.
 

In Nantes the most radical participants in the protests against the liberalization of the labor market in the name of employment growth a police barricade hurled stones. Police shut down one of the streets leading to the city center using a truck with a water cannon.
 

Prepared by Labour Minister Myriam El Khomri bill, which is the intention of the government to help reduce unemployment exceeding 10 percent in France., Criticizes – according to recent polls – 78 percent. French. They fear that implementing it will create a “high risk of social explosion.”
 

Mass street protests against the “deterioration of the labor law,” which – as claimed by the unions – a risk of “a sharp increase in the number of precarity” in France, began on March 9.
 

In the evening on March 31 in protest marches across the country by the authorities participated 390 thousand. people, and according to the organizers – 1.2 million.