Climate protests: More than a hundred arrests in Paris

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During protests in Paris, the police have provisionally arrested more than one hundred people. Violent members of the so-called black bloc had mixed among the participants in a climate campaign. The police called for peaceful protesters to distance themselves from violent groups.

Several thousand people took part in the "For the Climate and Social Justice" rally. Previously, there had already been a yellow-west demonstration in the French capital, and in the afternoon a union rally against the government's pension reform.

According to the police, the violent demonstrators first took to the streets together with the yellow vests and then joined the climate campaign. Here, windows were destroyed and shops plundered. After the beginning of the riots security forces intervened to disperse about 150 militant, partially masked demonstrators. They also used tear gas. A total of 7500 police were on duty, water cannons and armored vehicles were ready.

In Paris overall low response to the climate strike

Several non-governmental organizations had called for the climate rally. The World Climate Crisis on Friday had involved just under 10,000 people in Paris. By comparison, in Berlin, 270,000 people protested more climate protection, in Hamburg there were at least 70,000.

Climate protests were also called in other French cities such as Strasbourg, Lyon and Bordeaux. In Lyon, according to prefecture, around 5,000 people gathered. Environmentalists are currently taking to the streets worldwide. The occasion is the upcoming UN climate summit on Monday in New York.

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