Mass unrest in France during the election day

 

At least 29 people were detained, and nine others were injured in the clashes in Paris after the first round of the presidential elections in France.

Police clashed with anti-fascists protesters in Paris Sunday shortly after early projections from France’s presidential elections showed far-right leader Marine Le Pen making it into the second round scheduled for May 7.

Several hundred young people rallied in Bastille Square — the historic site where the French Revolution began in 1789 — after projections suggested that the runoff election would be between Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron, a former investment banker and economy minister of socialist President Francois Hollande.

A protest leader called on the public through a loudspeaker to rally “against Marine and Macron.”