Tear gas and arrests. The demonstration organized in Rennes on Saturday, which brought together some 600 people, according to the prefecture, ended with four arrests by the police. Protesters marched against "Macron, Darmanin and fascism." The police fired tear gas just minutes after the departure of the procession from the Place de Bretagne, an AFP journalist found. Highly mobile demonstrators then moved towards the Place de la République, threatening to attack a bank branch and a department store.
A hundred demonstrators, mostly young, dressed in black and white, masked and carrying unfurled black umbrellas had taken the lead of the procession behind a banner on which was written "Against work". The prefecture had banned the demonstration and deployed several dozen security forces to prevent the demonstration from spilling over into the city center.
Violence against journalists by ultras
Around 17 p.m., while the supporters of the Stade Rennais had planned to march before the Rennes-Monaco match scheduled for 20 p.m., a photographer and a journalist from Ouest-France were also violently attacked by demonstrators of the group of ultras of the Roazhon Celtic Kop (RCK), we learned from the editorial staff of the newspaper.
The West-France journalist who covered the parade was invectivated and ordered "to clear" while demonstrators also attacked a photographer from whom "they tried to snatch the cameras", according to the same source.
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