Clashes Erupt in ‘Yellow Vest’ Protests as Macron Prepares Policy Moves

Clashes Erupt in ‘Yellow Vest’ Protests as Macron Prepares Policy Moves
French President Emmanuel Macron arrives at an extraordinary European Union leaders summit to discuss Brexit, in Brussels, Belgium on April 10, 2019. Susana Vera/Reuters
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TOULOUSE—Yellow vest demonstrators clashed with riot police in the French city of Toulouse on Saturday, even as President Emmanuel Macron prepared a series of policy announcements aimed at quelling 22 consecutive weekends of anti-government protests.

Police in the southeastern city fired teargas and arrested 23 people after several hundred demonstrators threw objects and set fire to cars, motorbikes, a construction cabin and rubbish bins.