Today the police are in combat because we are at war, a report from the unions said as marauding gangs of rioters clashed with police again last night leading to 1,300 arrests.
France is entering a fifth night of riots as the government deployed 45,000 police, helicopters and several armoured vehicles to tackle the worst crisis of Macron s presidency.
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