Nearly 1,000 arrests were made as hundreds of thousands of people took part in another day of protests across France, which were followed by some clashes late on Saturday.
After a day of largely peaceful demonstrations, police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters in several cities including Paris, while barricades were set alight in Marseille and people ripped boards from a shop in Bordeaux.
Officials have so far managed to avoid rioting and looting on the scale seen last weekend, which resulted in some of the worst scenes of disorder in France’s modern history.
The interior ministry said an estimated four hundred and ten thousand people protested on Saturday, while the unions put the number at about eight hundred thousand.
Seventy thousand police officers were deployed, and restrictions were imposed in several cities to prevent the latest protests over the cost of living and poor school conditions from descending into the kind of chaos which saw officers outnumbered, hundreds of businesses looted and buildings torched.
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