President Emmanuel Macron has visited the graffiti-damaged Arc de Triomphe monument and held an emergency meeting on security, a day after central Paris was hit by France’s worst riot in a generation. President Emmanuel Macron has visited the graffiti-damaged Arc de Triomphe monument and held an emergency meeting on security, a day after central Paris was hit by France’s worst riot in a generation. He then headed to a nearby avenue where activists wearing yellow jackets had torched cars, smashed windows, looted shops and battled police on Saturday. Activists wearing yellow jackets had thrown rocks at police and tagged the Arc de Triomphe with multi-coloured graffiti. A woman takes a photo of charred cars near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris (Thibault Camus/AP)The scene in Paris contrasted sharply with protests elsewhere in France on Saturday that were mostly peaceful.

Source: Irish Independent December 02, 2018 13:52 UTC