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Yellow Vest Protests Continue For Ninth Consecutive Week

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According to a report by Reuters, on Saturday, Paris police fired water cannons and tear gas at 'yellow vest demonstrators near the Arc de Triomphe monument, in the ninth straight weekend of massive protests. Earlier on Saturday, a large gas explosion in a bakery killed two firefighters and Spanish tourist and injured nearly 50 other people. Reuters reports that France's Interior Ministry estimated that there were 32,000 demonstrators nationwide on Saturday, including 8,000 in Paris, below the 50,000 counted last week and well below the record 282,000 nationwide on Nov. 17, the first day of yellow vest protests. Thousands of protestors also reportedly took to the streets of Bordeaux and Toulon in southern France as well as Strasbourg in the east and the central city of Bourges.

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