French PM vows 'massive' police deployment for new demonstrations
French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu on Tuesday vowed a "massive" police presence at fresh protests called for the coming weekend, as he faced criticism over the handling of recent street violence. The eurozone's second-largest economy was rocked on Saturday by some of its worst rioting in recent years, just six months before voters head to the polls to elect a successor to President Emmanuel Macron. FRANCE 24's Ellen Gainsford reports.
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[Claude] Both reports cover the same PM vow of a massive police deployment for the coming weekend's protests, with Report 2 adding curfew details and Report 3 adding the parliamentary remarks, and neither conf
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