Demonstrating for the 14th consecutive weekend, 41,500 people turned out across the country, according to the interior ministry, well down on the 282,000 peak during the protests' early weeks. A ministry statement said 5,000 people protested in Paris but march organizers put the numbers far higher. "We are 15,000, that means the movement is increasing," Jerome Rodrigues, one of the movement's better known figures, told AFP at the Paris march. Thousands marched there again Saturday and there was a strong turnout in the southwest city of Bordeaux, another stronghold of the movement. There were clashes and arrests in several cities and police in Paris detained 15 of 26 arrested, but the violence appeared down from last weekend.

Source: The Local February 16, 2019 21:22 UTC