mniraq - Protests and popular demonstrations continue in several French cities for the third consecutive week, protesting rising living costs and declining quality of public services amidst the expansion of social demands.
Field reports indicated that security authorities deployed tens of thousands of personnel to secure gatherings, which witnessed confrontations, vandalism, and clashes between protesters and police forces in some locations.
Official entities estimated the number of participants in the hundreds of thousands, with the arrest of more than 560 people recorded against the backdrop of riots and violations of security laws during the gatherings.
