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Marseille café owner backs protests but counts the damage

The French report pairs damaged shopfronts in Marseille with a burned Paris gendarme's account and a police union warning about exhaustion.

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Soirée de violences à Marseille, manifestations à répétition... Les forces de l'ordre sous pression

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0:20Municipal crews clean Marseille streets after unrest around Place Jean Jaurès.
1:14A resident describes renewed violence; a café owner explains that he supports the movement despite damage to his business.
2:15The report gives a Marseille toll of 18 arrests and 19 slightly injured police officers.
3:06The injured Paris gendarme shows damaged protective equipment and says his fire-resistant trousers did not protect him long enough.
4:22Police union leader Grégory Joron says repeated, intensive weekend deployments are becoming difficult to sustain.

A Marseille café owner stands outside his damaged business and explains a difficult distinction: he supports the protest movement, but his window has been damaged in the violence. His testimony is part of France's TF1 INFO television news report on clashes in Marseille and Paris, and the pressure repeated deployments are placing on police.

The Marseille segment opens with municipal workers cleaning streets around Place Jean Jaurès after the previous evening's unrest. Footage shows fires, projectiles and riot police charging. The broadcaster reports an attempted burglary at a shoe shop and an intrusion into a nursery school following a banned demonstration.

A resident describes being surprised when violence resumed late in the evening. Another interviewee questions the purpose of allowing demonstrations only in places where nobody will see them. The report gives a Marseille toll of 18 arrests and 19 police officers with minor injuries.

In Paris, the focus turns to Porte de Charenton, where footage shows a mobile gendarme engulfed in flames. TF1 reports that an investigation into attempted homicide has been opened after a Molotov cocktail was thrown at him.

The gendarme, whose face is not shown, displays burned trousers, a broken helmet visor and a photograph of his burn on his phone. He says the trousers were designed to resist heat and fire but did not protect him long enough. He describes a calm assignment that deteriorated almost instantly.

The final interview broadens the question from individual incidents to staffing. Grégory Joron, secretary general of the Unité national police union, says the dense succession of weekend deployments is becoming difficult for officers to sustain.

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