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PARIS, (APP/AFP): Two dozen police officers were injured
Thursday, three of them seriously, as violence flared in mass protests across France against a hotly contested labour reform bill.
Security forces in Paris responded with tear gas as masked youths
threw bottles and cobblestones, leaving three policemen with serious injuries, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said, adding that 24 police were injured overall.
Clashes between police and protesters also erupted in the cities of
Nantes, Lyon, Marseille and Toulouse, with 124 people arrested nationwide, Cazeneuve said.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls strongly condemned the unrest, which he
blamed on “an irresponsible minority”. “They will be brought to justice. Support to the police,” he wrote on Twitter.
Cazeneuve criticised what he called the excesses of those who sought to exploit the violence on the fringes of the protests after visiting injured policemen in hospital.