France braces for fresh unrest, government vows tough response
What happened
Thousands of police are deploying in Germany ahead of youth-led protests on Saturday, as the country braces for the kind of unrest that has hit France, Italy and Spain in recent weeks.
The group says it rejects all violence; its complaints range from living costs and run-down schools to spending cuts and fears that conscription could return.
Some luxury shops in Germany are boarding up their windows against possible looting.
France's interior minister Laurent Nuñez called the violence from some rioters "extraordinary" and said police made more than 290 arrests, while a Molotov cocktail thrown at an officer in Paris was "attempted murder".
“the networking of the far-left extremist scene is international and coordinated”
Handelsblatt, quoted by The Hindu
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