At least 171 people have been arrested during the serious riots registered this Monday in Paris coinciding with the approval in the National Assembly of the pension reform. The opposition denounces the detention of peaceful demonstrators, including politicians from La Francia Insumisa.

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of central Paris on Monday, garbage cans have been knocked overthey have set fire to them and have looted shops in the most emblematic shopping streets of the French capital, according to the French press.

The Police have deployed BRAV-M riot police who have chased those responsible for these havoc on motorcycles in the Montmartre, Opera or Louvre area. Protesters have chanted anti-capitalist slogans while the violent ones caused significant material damage.

The leader of La France Insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, has called to the “immediate cessation of detentions”. “Tonight, dozens of peaceful people were violently and arbitrarily detained. Among them Emma Fourreau, co-responsible for Jóvenes Insumisas, and Laurent Abrahams, activist with La Francia Insumisa. We demand the immediate end of the arrests and the release of the prisoners! !” Mélenchon posted on Twitter.

“Macron and his government will never have enough police cells to stop the just anger of an entire people!”, Added for her part the deputy of La Francia Insumisa Mathilde Panot.

Protests in other cities

The mobilizations have been reproduced in many other French cities. in marseille a hundred demonstrators have tried to storm the prefecture of Bouches-du-Rhônereports ‘Le Figaro’ citing police sources. The Police intervened to arrest them and the situation is now calm.

In Toulouse the situation is tense, with protesters burning garbage containers, while in Bordeaux the Police have used tear gas to disperse the crowd.

In Bordeaux and Lille the Police He has also intervened with tear gas and other means of riot control to disperse the protest, while in Montpellier barricades have been erected in the vicinity of the prefecture.

In Nancy, a hundred have destroyed street furniture, according to the Alsace media. Dumpsters have been overturned. Also in Dijon and Strasbourg there have been protests.

in Rennes, the capital of French Brittany, have concentrated between 300 and 500 people who have set fire in various areas of the center of the town, before a large police deployment that has resulted in at least two arrests. As reported by ‘Le Monde’, there are calls on social networks to block bus stations starting at five in the morning on Tuesday.