Why would the foreign press in Paris want to travel to dreary old Lyon or Clermont-Ferrand?
Protestors in Lille, northern France, Tuesday April 4, 2006 burn dustbins following a students' demonstration against the French government's new labor law. Police said at least 1 million people poured into the streets across France on Tuesday and youths clashed with riot officers in the latest protests against the government's new jobs law. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)
In the south of the capital, dozens of trouble-makers hurled paving stones and bottles at riot police, who fired tear gas. At least nine police officers were slightly injured.
More serious incidents broke out in Lille, in the north, where hundreds of youths hurled missiles at the riot police, smashed shop windows and vandalised cars, although the situation was calmer by around 8:00 pm (1800 GMT).
A female television reporter was assaulted while filming the violence and a young man suffered burn injuries from the shell of a tear gas grenade.
Police in Rennes, in the northwest, also fired tear gas at protestors after they were targeted with bottles and stones as youths set garbage cans on fire and smashed bus shelters and windows.
Firefighters said they had evacuated at least three people, including one hit with a rubber bullet.
In the northern city of Caen, a photographer was injured in clashes between police and demonstrators who had set up a roadblock on the ring road.
I feel like I'm being left out of all the excitement.