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Added on the 08/03/2024 17:29:05 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
The Paris demonstration for women's rights and gender equality is marred by jostling between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel activists. IMAGES
Hundreds of people gather in Rennes, northern France, for a demonstration 'against austerity, for wages and gender equality', as part of a nationwide movement called by an inter-union coalition. IMAGES
Thousands gather in Paris for a demonstration calling for an end to gender violence and femicide in a country where at least 116 women have been killed by present or former partners this year. The march in the French capital began near the main opera house with several protesters holding up signs of a relative or friend killed in gender violence. IMAGES
Young pro-Palestinian demonstrators gather in front of the Pantheon in Paris, while French police intervened at the capital's prestigious Sciences Po university to remove activists who had occupied the building to denounce the Israeli military offensive in Gaza. IMAGES
Police arrive on the premises of Sciences Po Paris to evacuate several dozen pro-Palestinian activist students who had been occupying the building since the previous day. IMAGES
Tensions erupt at Place de la Nation at the end of the Paris May Day march. Law enforcement fired tear gas to deal with what a police source called a minority of "radical elements". IMAGES