Macron: "what has happened has nothing to do with the peaceful expression of legitimate anger. Nothing justifies these excesses"
France takes stock of the Paris urban guerrilla of the yellow vests. 412 arrested with 378 people still in custody and 133 injured. A protester is in very serious condition and 23 policemen are also injured.
At Arles, in the Bouches-du-Rhone, a motorist died of an accident caused by a roadblock in the Yellow Gilet on a provincial road. Salt to three then the death toll.
President Emmanuel Macron, who returned from the G20 in Buenos Aires, after visiting the Arc de Triomphe area has called an emergency summit.
All options are on the table: from dialogue with demonstrators to the eventual proclamation of a state of emergency. The summit may already have the results of the extraordinary meeting convened by Mayor Anne Hidalgo for an initial damage assessment. Meanwhile, the police union Unsa has asked that the next demonstration of the yellow vests in Paris, called for Saturday 8 December, in full Christmas shopping, be not authorized.
The president of the Senate, Gerard Larcher of the center-right opposition, has sensitized that the government must not allow another black Saturday and has clamored for a political response.