The hand of a demonstrator has been torn down by a grenade during the greatest maidemonstrations in France for 30 years

France's greatest maidemonstrations have been violent in decades when a demonstrator lost a hand in clashes, while an officer suffered severe burns after being hit by a Molotov cocktail.

Around 782,000 people protested throughout France in a new rage demonstration against the pension reform of the French President, including 112,000 in Paris, the Interior Ministry said.

The CGT union put the number at 2.3 million demonstrators in France, including 550,000 in the capital. The turnout was up to ten times higher than on May 1, 2022, but smaller than the greatest protests so far against the pension reform this year.

Nevertheless, it was a significant sign of the strength of the unions that had come together for the day of work for the first time since 2009. Laurent Berger, Chairman of the CFDT, France's largest union, called her "historical", the largest in 30 years, and prove that this was not a "song" for her three -month protest movement.

But while the unions had called for "festive" demonstrations for employee rights and against Macron's law to increase the retirement age from 62 to 64, many regretted the presence of thousands of "black blocks", some of which had traveled from abroad to take part in demonstrations in French cities.

in Paris, according to the state broadcaster France Télévisions police officers of Molotow cocktails, one was burned on the face and body before being taken to the hospital.

The film material showed the burning projectiles that the police met in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. The film material showed another police officer who was passed out when his unity of projectile and fireworks was heavily shot at. However, it turned out that he was put down by "Friendly Fire" when a colleague hurled a glare grenade that slipped and landed on his team.

The demonstrators also destroyed business and hurled stones while the police reacted with a water cannon, tear gas, standby rifles and glare grenades.

A 28-year-old demonstrator in Nantes was treated after he reported that a glare grenade had been torn down.

About 13,000 police officers were deployed all over France, including 5,000 in Paris, where civil servants fired tear gas, as black -dressed demonstrators with their yellow yellow vests and sang: "Everyone hate the police."

The clashes were worst at the Place de la Nation, where demonstrators were on fire, the firefighters could only exhaust them when they spread to a neighboring building.

There were at least 180 arrests in the country, more than 60 in Paris alone. It was reported that 108 police officers and dozens of demonstrators were injured, some of them difficult. The police used drones in the French capital and Bordeaux for the first time to localize crisis herds.

Elisabeth Borne, the French Prime Minister, condemned “unacceptable” scenes.

"If the vast majority of demonstrators were of course pacifists, the police are faced with one goal, especially in Paris, Lyon and Nantes, who came with one goal: to kill police officers and attack the property of others," said Gérald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior.

In the western city of Lyon, violent clashes occurred in which vandal fireworks and bright bodies fired on the police and caused several injuries.

The unions regretted the presence of up to 1,000 vandals, of which they said they had ruined their march.

The moderate CDFT, France's largest union, struck her presence and said: "Our march is manipulated by violent groups who have nothing to do with the fights that we run."

"It is repulsive, it is unfair to all those who have mobilized in such a large number," said Sonia Paccaud, a local CFDT leader.

in Marseille, around 200 demonstrators briefly occupied the noble intercontinental hotel and smeared the walls with "Bourgeois are on the menu". Sébastien Fournier, an FSU trade unionist, said that one of the hotel's shareholders is the investment fund giant Black Rock, who advised Mr. Macron on his pension reform.

Environmental activists destroyed a cultural center that is connected to the richest man in the world.

The Louis Vuitton Foundation in the east of the capital is financed by LVMH, the luxury goods conglomerate of Bernard Arnault, the 74-year-old French multimillionaire, which is currently listing all global lists of the rich.

activists of the Extinction Rebellion sprayed the building with color and said: "On this May 1, 2023, they observe direct actions against the rich."

"We will go to the street in solidarity and resistance all over the world. So we do it, enjoy it."

Other environmental activists smeared the Place Vendôme on which the Ritz is located.

A demonstrator, Jean-Louis Pétraud, a retired state educational worker, said: "I do not tolerate violence, but I understand them. Macron only knows how to be contemptuous. Whenever he speaks to people, he looks down at her. It is king Macron who is paid for by Europe and the big money."

"In the history of the fifth Republic, there has never been such a rejection of a president," he told Le Monde.

Didier, 61, one of the yellow vests protested in Paris, said: "In democracy, if the majority do not want a law, whatever you think you can withdraw it." The French were against the increase in retirement age.

"For me, [not listing to the will of the people] is fascism," he said.

In a speech in Paris, Jean-Luc Mélenchon said that the galosing figure of the left opposition party France Unweded that the "resignation of Macron" will quickly become "a wish and mass hope of the population".

"On July 14th we will teach him the meaning of the word 'uprising'," he said.

In a speech in Le Havre, where she celebrated May 1st, Marine Le Pen, chair of the National Rally, Populistic Party, Mr. Macron, accused "to suffer the temptation of street power".

"He wanted to get the country on the way, he broke it," she said.

"Rarely was a president so unused, so lonely, so besieged, but still so arrogant. Rarely was a government ghostly, fatty and transparent," she added.

After three months of demonstrations, Mr. Macron rammed his pension calculation through without parliamentary coordination, since he lacked the majority. Almost three out of four Frenchmen were dissatisfied with Mr. Macron, as a survey by the IFOP umbrella group showed last month.

In the past few days he has gone on a tour of the French province to appease public anger, and was hit by hundreds by demonstrators who hit pots and pans to express their displeasure - an ancient practice.

his prime minister will invite the unions to discussions about further reforms in areas such as work and health.

employee representatives, however, say that they will not “re -leaf out” with the pensions.

You "will not go to anything else unless the law has been withdrawn," warned Sophie Binet, chair of the persistent CGT union.

"The president has to return to reason."