Clashes in Paris between the police and hooded black blocs at the trade union demonstration on May XNUMXst, with the throwing of incendiary bottles to which the police responded with tear gas. The clashes took place both at the head of the procession between Place de la République and the Bastille and near the place de la Nation, at the end of the procession.
Almost 150 hooded black blocs - according to Bfm-Tv - attacked the police again with incendiary bottles and throwing cobblestones. There are at least three injured policemen, according to the prefecture, one of them seriously, with third-degree burns to the face and one hand. There have been at least four arrests among the troublemakers.
Clashes between social centers and the police at the May Day procession also in Turin, where the forces of order prevented about fifty demonstrators from the social centers from accessing Piazza San Carlo, the venue for the official speeches of the trade unions.
The police carried out some lightening charges. The social centers marched at the end of the procession, behind a banner with the inscription "Poletti infame" and a van with the No Tav flag. Three people were stopped. The agents seized the cobblestones, sticks and umbrellas from the demonstrators.
The antagonists attempted to reach Piazza San Carlo, where the May Day rallies were taking place. There were three attempts, according to the Police Headquarters. To implement them about twenty people, misrepresented and armed with sticks, who moved at the head of the antagonistic segment, made up of about 200 people. The police, placed at a barrier, stood between them and prevented the demonstrators from deviating from the authorized route.
Finally, from Istanbul, the Turkish police have announced that they have arrested 165 people, many of whom are demonstrators who were trying to reach the symbolic Taksim square on May 18, despite the ban by the authorities who had closed the square for the third year consecutive. According to the local security department, another XNUMX people were arrested - in another police operation - on charges of organizing unauthorized demonstrations and carrying out acts of violence.
