In Lyon, officers used tear gas to disperse around 150 protesters after they briefly attempted to block a road near the city centre, where demonstrations had been banned, an AFP journalist reported.

About 70,000 police and security officers, mobilized ahead of mass protests, will try to avert the arson and looting that shocked the country last weekend.

Videos of alleged police violence are spreading widely on social media as a wave of protests sweeps France. One clip shows officers knocking a man to the ground, beating him, and then dragging him ...

France is bracing for further chaos today ahead of a day of protests which will see shopkeepers prepare for violence and ...

As tensions rise amid another large-scale protest expected across France on October 24, French authorities announced plans to ...