Police used tear gas to disperse radicals of the black bloc movement at a demonstration in Paris, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports from the scene.
The demonstration began on the Republic Square in Paris after 8.00 pm in the evening after the announcement of the first results of the first round of the first round of parliamentary elections in France. The demonstration was peaceful for several hours, but then radicals from the black bloc movement joined it. They began to provoke the police by throwing firecrackers at them, setting fire to rubbish bins and smashing café windows.
The police used tear gas to disperse the crowd.
France’s Interior Ministry earlier announced preliminary results of voting in the first round of parliamentary elections: the National Rally party is in the lead with 34.2 per cent of the vote, the left-wing New Popular Front coalition is in second place with 29.1 per cent, President Emmanuel Macron’s coalition is third with 21.5 per cent.
In France, the first round of snap elections to the National Assembly, the lower house of the French parliament, was held on Sunday. The second round will be held on 7 July. The French will have to choose 577 deputies who will represent their interests in the country’s parliament.
This is the first time in the history of the Fifth Republic that elections are being held on such short notice. After President Emmanuel Macron announced the dissolution of parliament on the evening of 9 June, parties had less than three weeks to nominate their candidates and campaign.
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