Scuffles break out as French strike to call for higher wages

FILE PHOTO: Car drivers queue to fill their fuel tank at a TotalEnergies gas station in Nice as petrol supplies have been disrupted by strikes for weeks in France, October 17, 2022. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard/File Photo

PARIS (Reuters) -Dozens of black-clad protesters clashed with police and broke shop windows on Tuesday on the margins of a demonstration when several thousand people took to the streets of Paris to call for wage hikes as high inflation eats away their purchasing power.

11 people were arrested in Paris, the interior ministry said in the early evening, adding that 107,000 people nationwide followed the protest call from leftwing parties and some unions, including 13,000 in the capital. The hardline CGT trade union said 70,000 people took part in the march in Paris.