Follow-Up: Final Tally for France's Fifth Weekend of Protests: 404 Detained, 50 Police and Gendarmes Injured
France's protests against the rising cost of living and deteriorating public services entered a fifth straight weekend on November 14. On November 15 the Interior Ministry and the Paris prosecutor's office gave AFP their consolidated figures: 404 people were detained across France that day, 134 of them in Paris — up from the preliminary count of 219 released on Saturday evening.
The Paris prosecutor said 79 of the 134 detained in the capital were held in police custody, 73 of them adults; of the 43 minors detained that day, six were domiciled in Paris. The custody cases mainly concerned protest-related offenses (46 cases) and attacks on persons holding public authority (11 cases), the prosecutor said.
The Interior Ministry put turnout at about 106,000 nationwide, with some 24,000 marching in Paris from Place de la République to Place de la Nation; organizers claimed 200,000 nationwide, half of them in the capital. Paris's main march dispersed calmly toward evening, and two unauthorized processions detected later were quickly intercepted by police.
Fifty police officers and gendarmes were injured nationwide, the ministry said, with scattered incidents in Marseille, Grenoble, Bordeaux and Lyon, where a BFMTV television crew was attacked. The ministry stressed that participation had fallen again and that the situation remained generally under control.
(Source: AFP)
Source: AFP
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Photo: 图：2026年11月5日，巴黎示威者举着「11月5日罢工，为了胜利」横幅游行，埃菲尔铁塔在旁，本轮抗议浪潮已持续五个周末。照片：FreCha 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Protesters march in Paris on Nov. 5, 2026, carrying a banner reading "On strike Nov. 5, to win," with the Eiffel Tower alongside, during the protest wave that has now run five weekends. Photo by FreCha, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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