CNN:
Nearly 1,000 people were detained across France Saturday, the Interior Ministry said, as a wave of protests airing economic grievances returned to the streets of its major cities.
A massive police presence was met with some violent clashes in Marseille and Bordeaux as well as the capital, but the largely peaceful demonstrations were not marred by the scale of violence that erupted the previous weekend.
Around 110,000 of the over 410,000 protesters were in Paris, the ministry said, roughly the same number who demonstrated in the capital a week earlier.
Protesters have been calling for greater investment in the country’s education system, more opportunities for its young workers and solutions to surging living costs.
“In Paris, we had a major demonstration that took place peacefully, like most protest marches across the entire country,” Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez told reporters, saying that almost 1,000 people were detained nationwide.
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