00:00Dozens of people have been detained in Paris following clashes with security forces during nationwide protests.
00:11Violence erupted in cities across France on Saturday, despite the deployment of thousands of police officers and riot units.
00:19Euronews' Valérie Gouria reports from the ground.
00:23To say the least, I had to walk out of the square for a while.
00:28I got quite a fair dose of tear gas a few minutes ago.
00:33And you see here the atmosphere is really a bit surrealistic.
00:38You see demonstrators taking pictures in front of the riot police who are standing by pretty quietly whilst other groups
00:48back on the square are launching sporadic attacks against what they deem are more aggressive demonstrators.
00:56And you have a mix between, indeed, angry demonstrators and very cheerful ones, singing, chanting.
01:04For now, everybody seems to be quite stuck and jammed and going in every sort of direction around the Place
01:11de la République.
01:12So we'll see how this will unfold.
01:16Valérie Gouria in Paris for Euronews.
01:18Valérie Gouria in Paris for Euronews.
01:19Valérie Gouria in Paris for Euronews.
01:20Valérie Gouria in Paris for Euronews.
