The police detained more than 140 participants in an unauthorized manifestation in Paris

The French police detained 141 participants in the protest rally, held the night before in Paris after the announcement of the results of the presidential election, according to which the leader of the “forward” movement Emmanuel Macron won . Nine detainees are taken into custody, the local publication Le Parisien reports.

According to the source of the newspaper in law enforcement agencies arrested, various accusations were charged: “obstruction of the road traffic”, “use of force”, “damage to property”. It is noted that more than 300 people took part in the unauthorized action. Basically, these were radical young people, dressed mainly in black, with faces closed bandages.

Protesters gathered on Sunday evening in the Menilmontan area in the northeast of Paris. Demonstrators who call themselves "anti -capitalists" shouted slogans demanding the resignation of Macron, beat glass and threw stones at the police. To pacify the radicals of the police, we had to use tear gas.

Similar rallies also took place in a number of other large French cities, including Grenoble, Poitiers, Strasbourg, Lyon, Nante and Montpellier. In the nante, during the riots in which more than 400 people took part, five demonstrators were detained, Ouest-France reports. In Strasbourg, according to local authorities, about ten arrested.

Earlier it was reported that the French police detained the correspondent of the Russian television channel Russia Today Charlotte Dubensky, who covered protests on Sunday in Paris. She later reported on Twitter that she was released .

The French police also released five Femen activists from the guards, detained for the action near the polling station in the city of Enen-Bomon, where French candidate Marine Le Pen voted. Half -naked activists launched a huge poster against the arrival of Le Pen to power. “Our five activists were released to freedom,” RIA Novosti quotes the statement of representatives of the movement.