Riot police charged and sprayed teargas on demonstrators in central Paris protesting after President Emmanuel Macron was re-elected on Sunday, footage from social media showed.
Highlights
- Police charged and sprayed teargas on demonstrators in central Paris protesting after President Emmanuel Macron was re-elected on Sunday.
- Police sought to break up a crowd of mostly young people who had gathered in the central neighborhood of Chatelet to protest, images on Twitter showed.
- Macron defeated far-right leader Marine Le Pen in a runoff vote earlier on Sunday by winning a second five-year term.
- Students protested outside the Sorbonne in Paris and other universities, expressing their disillusionment with the choice of the choice on offer.
- The abstention rate was expected to settle at the highest since 1969, with a substantial chunk of voters unwilling to vote for either Macron or Le Pen.