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Added on the 20/03/2021 16:11:37 - Copyright : AFPTV - First 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
Riot police in Athens clash with protesters during a demonstration amid a 24-hour general strike to voice outrage over last month's train disaster, which claimed 57 lives. Police fire tear gas and stun grenades as demonstrators try to surround them, hurling firebombs and rocks. IMAGES
Police and demonstrators continue clashing on day 12 of a fuel price revolt in Ecuador, that has claimed six lives and injured dozens. An estimated 14,000 protesters are taking part in the mass show of discontent countrywide against rising hardship in an economy hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic. IMAGES
Demonstrators clash with police on a main road in Quito on the ninth day of Indigenous-led fuel price protests. The head of Ecuador's armed forces has denounced as a "grave threat" to democracy the wave of protests that have triggered several regional states of emergency and a curfew in the capital Quito. IMAGES
Demonstrators and police clash in Corsica during a march in support of Yvan Colonna, the pro-independence activist who was jailed for the assassination of the prefect Erignac in 1998. Colonna was violently attacked by a fellow prisoner on Wednesday. IMAGES