PARIS — Police fire tear gas and block demonstrators from marching through Paris to protest police brutality and racial injustice.
The tear gas begins just as a group of extreme-right counter demonstrators are dislodged from the roof of a building overlooking the protest.
Protesters set off firecrackers and shout at police but ware otherwise peaceful. Families and others trying to leave the protest struggle to get out because police have blocked off most exit routes. The remaining crowd takes a knee.
Police decided to bar the crowd from marching from the Place de la Republique in eastern Paris toward the city’s main opera house. A police official tells The Associated Press the decision was made because of a nationwide ban on gatherings of more than 10 people to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
The counter-demonstrators had earlier unfurled a banner about “anti-white racism” and lit flares in the blue-white-red colors of the French flag.
Residents reached out their windows to tear down the banner. Activists later confronted the far-right activists on the roof, throwing their bags and ropes to the pavement below.
— AP
A demonstrator holds a flare during a march against police brutality and racism in Paris, France, on June 13, 2020 (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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