Protests in Paris: firefighter saves mother and Baby from the flames

the protests by the yellow the West, it came back on Saturday to violent riots in the capital of France. On the Champs-Élysées, shops were looted, shop Windows smashed and cars set on fire.

a house is up in flames – a mother and her Baby were saved. The fire was set, according to interior Minister Christophe Castaner intentionally.

La banque Tameaud a été incendiée, une femme et son bébé au premier étage ont été sauvés in extremis par des policiers #Giletsjaunes #Paris pic.twitter.com/f5LqnTnj3Q

— Xavier Frère (@xbrother) 16. March 2019

It broke out in a Bank on the ground floor of the building close to the Champs-Élysées, and then spread, as the channel France 3 reported. The mother and her child were the information to be in the second floor and were transported by firefighters to safety.

Les @pompiers Paris et nos forces de l'ordre viennent de procéder à l’évacuation de tous les habitants d'un immeuble, délibérément incendié.
Le feu est maîtrisé. the
Les individus qui ont commis cet acte ne sont ni des manifestants, ni des casseurs : ce sont des assassins. pic.twitter.com/mh0BgZACzf

— Christophe Castaner (@CCastaner) 16. March 2019

"The people who have committed this fact, protesters or rioters, you are the murderer," said Castaner via Twitter.

looting in Paris

On the outskirts of the protests, it came to looting. Protesters looted on Saturday shops on the Champs-Elysées, as an AFP Reporter observed. On the Place de l'etoile threw masked and black-clad demonstrators paving stones in the direction of the police. The police used tear gas and water cannons. A squad car of the police was attacked, protesters erected barricades.

in The morning, Castaner, had declared, that had mixed professional rioters among the protesters. In the past week the number of protesters had decreased in the case of the protests against the reform policy of the French President Emmanuel Macron . (nag/sda)

Created: 16.03.2019, 16:04 p.m.