Riot police knock man unconscious during protest in Paris

FRENCH riot police knocked down a man while charging at anti-pension bill protesters in Paris, an eyewitness video showed on Tuesday (March 28).

The man lay motionless on the ground after being knocked over and several police officers stopped to give him assistance, the video continued to show.

French police did not later respond to a request for comment on the man's health.

Clashes also erupted on Tuesday at similar rallies in other cities including Rennes, Bordeaux and Toulouse, with a bank branch and cars set ablaze in Nantes.

The protest was the latest in a series of demonstrations since mid-January as millions of people have rallied and joined strike action days to express their anger over President Emmanuel Macron's plans to make most of them work an extra two years to 64.

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[KachZz]

'Contains audio some viewers may find upsetting'

Speaks French.

[grahamjordan]

Why break a shop window what’s the owner done to deserve that?

[kishanl]

"And i think to myself, what a wonderful world."

[danialfred]

I love how a policeman loses his baton and his friend hits the guy xD

[RazorbackX]

Did that one riot cop accidentally toss his baton into the crowd (and hitting someone with it) and then they charged over to retrieve it and beat the random people standing nearby?

[adamluong]

what a lovely day in Paris the sky is blue, the people are kind, and everything is peaceful

[alanbarriga]

what do you expect? you're just casually walking across and in front of riot police running with shields and heavy equipment. Imagine someone playing on the highway and wonder why they got ran over, I hope that guy is okay though.

[stankomusa]

what did they actually acomplished by breaking that shop window at 1:05 ?

[FrostFire]

notice how they wont do this in the ghettos

[billcarruth]

I wonder what age the police will be retiring at?

[nesrbrn]

0:39 wait did the police just throw a batton at that man then proceed to attack him ?!!!

[mategetsnosleep]

One of the officers checked on the dude at least. This entire situation sucks though and nobody is making very good choices. Fear and anger are huge motivators and usually go above reason.

[justkidding]

from another video:

Journalist: "is possible to do it with no
violence?"

65yo man: " :/ NO!"

They canceled my flight because of the strike: I never felt so good for a canceled flight.

[cheeseslice]

Riot police are literally just modern spartans

[gabin]

look at all the love around the world at the moment. so nice to see people getting along

[Noriginalgazza]

0:36 why did the policeman throw his colleague's truncheon towards a boy who did nothing? And above all why did the same policeman then run to beat up the innocent boy and only then recover the truncheon?

[JonPFS]

50% policeMan fully armed VS 20% civilians fighting VS 30% civilians filming the whole thing...

[pikhoi]

But why breaking windows and citizen's cars? Like you are just transferring the pain to someone else not even related to your problem

[we.r.]

The anger keeps building, with the snap of a finger things could turn awfully terrible, directed towards the riot brigade. Out numbered massively.

[gurraable]

This is what happens when the legal system thinks they are working for the good of politicians instead of the good of the nation.