The demonstrators marched for two hours in neighborhoods in western Lyon, chanting anti-capitalist and anti-police slogans, an AFP journalist found.
The demonstration, which gathered 650 people according to the prefecture, was surrounded by a large police force and was held without major incident, but with sporadic waves of tension, some tear gas shots and at least one degraded bus shelter, according to the same source.
Still according to the prefecture, it was made "use of tear gas to disperse groups targeting police forces with projectile throws, perpetrators of damage to bus shelters and a group harassing a police officer who had just arrested an individual".
The authorities estimated at about fifty the number of "individuals at risk" among the demonstrators and announced four arrests.
May 1 in Lyon was marked by violent actions, clashes with the police and significant damage to the course.
The prefecture of the Rhône had then decided to ban this new demonstration Saturday but the organizers seized the administrative court Friday by a procedure of summary liberty and won Saturday.
The prefecture also announced Friday measures (prohibited demonstrations, disrupted transport and large security perimeter) for a trip of Emmanuel Macron Monday to Lyon for a ceremony in tribute to the French Resistance.
Calls to demonstrate have been launched in anticipation of this visit of the head of state, who must preside over a ceremony in tribute to the French Resistance and Jean Moulin, incarnation of the hero-resistant, in the run-up to the 80th anniversary of his arrest by the Gestapo, in Caluire-et-Cuire, near Lyon.
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