Over 1,000 law enforcement officers and firefighters have been left injured while combatting rioting in France, the country’s interior minister claimed Saturday.
fury at the “extreme left” in the country, saying their violence had resulted in hundreds of injuries and arson attacks since mid-March.
A protester gestures in front of French gendarmes during a demonstration against a pensions reform in Vire, northwestern France, on April 1, 2023. Darmanin went on to accuse the country’s militant left wing of “intellectual terrorism” by accusing the police of violently attacking certain protesters, arguing that this is a complete reversal of what is actually happening on the ground.
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