"PARIS police fired water cannon and tear gas to repel "yellow vest" demonstrators around the Arc de Triomphe monument on Saturday in the ninth straight weekend of protests against French President Emmanuel Macron's economic reforms – on the same day similar protests erupted in London....police saying this weekend's protests were larger than last Saturday's.
Central Paris was in lockdown against another feared eruption of violence by radical elements in the "gilets jaunes" (yellow vest) movement, with bridges across the Seine river closed and official buildings such as parliament and the Elysee presidential palace protected by police barriers..."
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