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Police said hundreds of activists attacked officers on Sunday ahead of a peaceful rally to protest the forced closure of an anti-capitalist camp in western France. A week of clashes erupted on Monday when police launched an eviction operation at Notre-Dames-des-Landes camp, near the city of Nantes, set up 10 years ago to fight plans for a new airport.
Officers were attacked by around 300 protestors, some armed with molotov cocktails, who attempted to gain access to rebuild squats at the camp on Sunday morning, police said. Two people were arrested and one officer was wounded. Around 3,000 to 4,000 people later flocked to the site to take part in a peaceful rally defending the camp, police added.
General Richard Lizurey, director general of the French Gendarmerie, said the operation to clear the camp had been undermined by the presence of "the far-left" including "black bloc" protesters, the black-clad demonstrators who often clash with police at demonstrations around the world. A similar rally on Saturday, attended by around 6,700 people, spilled on to the streets of Nantes where windows were broken, police said. About 2,500 officers have been deployed to the site and 29 squats destroyed since Monday.
Many protesters have been equipped with gas masks, molotov cocktails, makeshift shields and racquets they used to knock back police tear gas cannisters during days of clashes. Dominique Fresneau, co-president of Acipa, the protest movement, called for calm on both sides, adding that violence delays talks. According to a medical team set up at the activists' camp, at least 148 protesters have been injured since Monday.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2018

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