PARIS: France’s interior minister promised Wednesday to boost security at protests after hooded youths ran amok at May Day demonstrations in Paris, torching cars and a McDonald’s restaurant. But he defended the way police had handled the violence, saying little could be done to stop trouble-makers from infiltrating the crowds. “We cannot keep up, even with 21 police units mobilised against movements which all of a sudden appear on a scale we’ve never seen before.”President Emmanuel Macron, on a visit to Sydney, deplored the clashes in the French capital, one of several cities around the world where May Day protests turned violent. “May 1 is Workers’ Day, not the day of the hooligans,” he told a press conference. Shouting “Rise up, Paris” and “Everyone hates the police”, anti-capitalist protesters in black jackets and face masks had tried to hold up the Paris march.

Source: Pakistan Today May 02, 2018 08:03 UTC