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PARIS (Reuters) - French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner described the yellow vest protesters who took to the streets on Friday to mark the first anniversary of their protests.
"What we saw yesterday were a few legitimate protesters and the rest were thugs, brethren and idiots," Castaner told Europe 1 radio station, acknowledging that 264 people were arrested nationwide on Sunday, including 173 in Paris alone.
French police have cracked down on demonstrations against the policies of President Emmanuel Macron, who used tear gas to disperse the protesters and arrested dozens of them.
The ongoing protests led by a movement called itself the yellow jackets launched on the seventeenth of November last year to condemn the rise in fuel prices as well as the high cost of living and then extended its demands to include the tax cuts approved by the French government, which the movement believes that it drains the working and middle classes. Strengthens the rich class and called on the movement from the beginning to reduce the value of fuel taxes and raise the minimum wage and then evolved to the point of calling for Macron's resignation and his departure from power.
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