Hundreds of protesters gathered on the Champs Elysees in Paris in anger over rising fuel costs on Saturday, the second weekend of “yellow vest” protests that have caused disruption across France.
Several hundred protesters had converged on the famous avenue where they faced police sent to prevent them from reaching the nearby presidential Elysee Palace.
Some protesters sang the national anthem while others carried signs with slogans saying “Macron, resignation” and “Macron, thief”.
For more than a week, protesters clad in the fluorescent yellow jackets that all motorists in France must have in their cars have blocked highways across the country with burning barricades and convoys of slow-moving trucks, obstructing access to fuel depots, shopping centres and some factories.