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- Police used tear gas to disperse rioters who set fires and looted shops at Place de la Republique.
- The crowd was dominated by men in their late teens and early twenties wearing black hoodies and balaclavas.
- Volunteers, including Alice Boucheron, cleaned rubbish around the monument, describing the action as a citizenship demonstration.
- Protesters displayed Palestinian and Algerian flags and spray-painted graffiti targeting Israel, police, President Macron and Marine Le Pen.