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May Day protests turn violent in Paris

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May Day demonstrators and Paris police clashed Wednesday, resulting in injuries to 38 people and the arrests of 380, law enforcement said.
May 1 (UPI) — May Day demonstrators and Paris police clashed Wednesday, resulting in injuries to 38 people and the arrests of 380, law enforcement said.
France’s Ministry of the Interior said about 164,500 people demonstrated throughout the country, though the General Confederation of Labor, a national trade union center also known by the acronym CGT, said the figure was twice that. The government said there were about 28,000 demonstrators in Paris, but a media consortium said there were about 40,000.
This year’s annual May Day protests were larger than last year’s 143,000 government estimate, and included participants from France’s Yellow Vest movement and the Black Blocs, a group of anarchists and anticapitalist vandals.

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