Posted on 05/05/2017 3:22:09 PM PDT by Lorianne
French police were pelted with Molotov cocktails and fireworks as hundreds of anti-Marine Le Pen activists hijacked the annual May Day march on Monday.
Officers were pictured on fire while demonstrators were hit with tear gas and charged with batons as scenes turned ugly ahead of a speech by Le Pen and her presidential opponent Emmanuel Macron.
Meanwhile dozens of anti-Erdogan marchers were detained in Turkey after they tried to walk to Taksim Square, an iconic protest space that had been declared off-limits by police.
Ugly clashes between protesters and police were also photographed in the US, Italy, Indonesia and the Philippines.
In France National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen held a rally ahead of competing events being put on by his daughter and presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen and her rival, Emmanuel Macron.
May 1, also known as Labour Day or International Workers' Day, is supposed to be a celebration of the working classes, but is also used by activists to demand better rights.
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This anarchist behavior alone would be enough to make me vote for Le Pen. But the p*ssy French will never face reality.
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