Riot police charge young workers in Toulouse

Eyewitness account of incident events in Toulouse yesterday afternoon.

From Toulouse indymedia:

“Following the occupation of the Town hall, at around 5pm, the CRS [French riot police] charged demonstrators in the adjacent streets to the place towards the Capitole. the demonstrators answered with a shower of projectiles, people starting some barricades and breaking the window of a hostile shop. There was a rough count of more than ten arrests.”

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