Bordeaux, Lyon, Toulouse and other cities also saw major clashes between protesters and police on Saturday. Nearly 1,000 people had been arrested, 620 of them in Paris, after police found potential weapons such as hammers and baseball bats on them. The slogan reads "Macron Resign" | Reuters“Very sad day & night in Paris,” U.S. President Donald Trump said in a Twitter message. “It feels like order is being better maintained this week,” Jean-Francois Barnaba, one of the yellow vests’ unofficial spokesmen, told Reuters. Macron is expected to address the nation early next week to possibly further soften planned reforms and tax increases.

Source: Dhaka Tribune December 08, 2018 20:03 UTC