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Act VIII: Scuffles break out as ‘yellow vests’ return to streets for 1st protest of 2019
Defiant Yellow Vest protesters have engaged in scuffles with police during the eighth weekend of protests in Paris. Law enforcers hit demonstrators with pepper spray and tear gas as they tried to breach a police line.
Videos from the scene showed hundreds of protesters in their iconic yellow vests facing off with police. The crowd tried to walk through a line of riot police, but was pushed away.
Officers fired several smoke grenades, and tear gas was also apparently used. The cameras caught some of the protesters rubbing their eyes and coughing.
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