A sleepless Thursday night spent by hundreds of youth and students at the Republic square in Paris to block a reform of labor code was marred by violence.

Police arrested 27 people, placing 24 of them in custody, after hooded youth refused to leave the square and threw projectiles at police officers.

In the early hours of Friday morning, people set two cars on fire and destroyed shopfronts, to which the police responded with tear gas, Paris prefecture said in a statement. No casualties have been reported, it added t Read More