COVID-19: Paris protests over privacy law boil over amid anger at coronavirus restrictions
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(Worthy News) – Thousands of demonstrators in Paris were met with water cannon as protests against a new privacy law attracted larger crowds keen to air their grievances over coronavirus restrictions and France’s slow vaccine rollout.
Riot police were deployed alongside the cannon to clear the Place de la Republique in the center of the capital just before 6pm local time, when a curfew kicks in each day.
The protest started peacefully, but as the sunset, tempers on both sides of the police cordons flared. [ Source: Sky News (Read More…) ]
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