Police had arrested 719 people nationwide by the early hours of Sunday, after a deployment of 45,000 officers and “gendarmes” in an attempt to control crowds in the quickly unfolding crisis, the French interior ministry says.
in a Paris suburb, while a local mayor said he was the victim of an assassination attempt by protestors.
“At 1:30 a.m., while I was at the town hall as I had been for the past 3 nights, individuals rammed a car into my home before setting it on fire to burn down my house, where my wife and two young children were sleeping,” Mayor Vincent Jeanbrun tweeted early Sunday.
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