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Paris, Dec 5 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Benjamin Legier) Protests against France's controversial global security law continued on Saturday in Paris. The global security legislation passed by the French Parliament aims to ban the distribution of photos in which police officers and gendarmes can be identified in a way which is harmful to their image.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST IN PARIS.
Tensions grow at Paris' Place de la République where the police is using tear gas to try to disperse the remaining protesters in a demonstration against a new security law. IMAGES
Police use water cannons at Place de la République in Paris as they disperse the last participants in a demonstration against the global security law. [COMPLETES VIDI8WJ8NG_EN and VIDI8WJ6HG_EN] IMAGES
Several hundred demonstrators set off from the Place du Chatelet towards the Place de la Republique in Paris to protest against the "global security" law for the third weekend in a row. IMAGES
Fires are lit on the streets and explosions heard in Paris as protests take place nationwide against France's new security law -- which would restrict the right of the press to broadcast images of police officers' faces -- despite the coronavirus pandemic. Demonstrators packed the capital's central Place de la Republique where the atmosphere was calmer and music was played. IMAGES
A Bank of France building and a newsstand are on fire in Place de la Bastille, Paris, as thousands take to the streets across France to demand the government abandon a contentious new security law. IMAGES