Saturday, March 16, 2019

March 16 - Riots in Paris

French yellow-vest protesters set fires, smashed up luxury stores in Paris and clashed with the police on Saturday in the 18th straight weekend of demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron. Large plumes of smoke rose above the rioting on Paris' landmark Champs-Élysées avenue. The protesters also set fire to the famed restaurant Fouquet's which Elvis Presley visited when in Paris in 1959. As the demonstrators had dispersed, the famed avenue was a blackened expanse.

(Source: CBC)