Prosecutor gives update on arrests following protests
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Channel: AP Archive · 2018 · News & Politics
(9 Dec 2018) Nearly 1,000 people, almost 100 of them minors and most without police records, were being held in custody after the Saturday protests in the French capital, Paris prosecutor Remy Heitz said on Sunday. According to Heitz, most of those in custody were men under 40 from various regions who came to Paris to protest. Most were taken in for carrying arms, like knives or objects that could be used as weapons like petanque balls or tear gas. Courts were working overtime to process the cases, he said. Heitz also said that the prosecutor's office was seeking preliminary charges against who they believe is the main person responsible for graffiti scrawled on the Arc de Triomphe last weekend. Thirteen others were already handed preliminary charges over vandalism of the monument. France deployed some 89,000 police but still failed to deter the determined protesters. More than 125,000 yellow vests took to the streets on Saturday around France with a bevy of demands related to high living costs and a sense that Macron favours the elite and is trying to modernize the French economy too fast. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/e8309f948cf347f1fad5cf8a2d860854
