France witnessed large-scale anti-austerity protests on Thursday, with hundreds of thousands taking to the streets to oppose looming budget cuts and pressuring President Emmanuel Macron and newly appointed Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu to change course.
In a significant demonstration of solidarity, over 100 members of the Indian diaspora staged a protest at Piazza Fontana near Duomo in Milan on Saturday, condemning the terror attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir.
Members of the Indian community and friends of India in France observed Black Day on October 22 as on this day in 1947 Pakistani invaders illegally entered Jammu and Kashmir and plundered and committed atrocities.
As the ongoing protests in France entered its sixth day, Police detained at least 72 people last night as the riots sparked by the police shooting of a teenager in a Paris suburb, BFMTV reported on Tuesday.
Hundreds of people on Monday marched in support of a French mayor whose house was attacked by a burning car, as the country entered the second week of violent protests and riots, CNN reported
Slamming the attack on Paris Mayor Vincent Jeanbrun's home early Sunday morning, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, called the incident "particularly shocking" and vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice.
China has lodged a complaint to France over an alleged attack on a bus carrying Chinese tourists, during the intense protests that have gripped the nation over the fatal police shooting of a teenage boy, DW News reported.