Protesters rally in Paris to support another activist injured in a confrontation with police last weekend. The demonstrators were undeterred by police protest bans or repeated injuries in 20 weeks of demonstrations. They're also showing solidarity with Genevieve Legay, a 73-year-old anti-globalization activist who suffered a head injury in the southern city of Nice last weekend. The French capital was placed under high security and protests were banned around the grand Champs-Elysees avenue, the scene of past yellow vest riots. In the southern French town of Avignon, brief scuffles broke out as police forced protesters out of the narrow streets of the medieval city center.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 31, 2019 02:37 UTC