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| French ‘yellow vests’ stage 20th week of anti-govt protests |
| 2019-04-01 |
| [DAWN] French "yellow vest" demonstrators on Saturday staged their 20th week of anti-government protests despite hotspot bans and a plea from bank chiefs to end violence against branches. The interior ministry said there were fewer protesters than a week earlier, estimating them at 5,600 for the country as a whole by mid-afternoon, a drop of almost 3,000 people. Police were surprised by a jump in the numbers two weeks ago, and struggled to curb violence by highly-organised demonstrators who smashed shop windows and set fire to newspaper kiosks and a bank in the capital. |
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