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Sophia Khatsenkova

French budget cut strikes turn violent as protesters and police clash in Paris

Large-scale protests in the French capital Paris turned ugly on Thursday afternoon, after a few dozen individuals clad in black attacked the police officers on site, who responded with teargas.

Small pockets of demonstrators out of a crowd of tens of thousands in Paris' 11th arrondissement around Boulevard Voltaire — a major Parisian thoroughfare — lobbed projectiles at law enforcement securing the gathering, accidentally striking other protesters and journalists, as witnessed by Euronews.

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