LIVE Mobilization of October 17: Demonstrators force their way into the town hall in Marseille...

In Marseille, demonstrators briefly entered the town hall hall after breaking down the door.

At midday, the authorities recorded 140 actions with 32,800 people in the provinces and 166 arrests throughout the national territory, according to the entourage of Minister of the Interior Laurent Nuñez.

Strong tensions between demonstrators and the police broke out at midday on Saturday in Paris at Place de la République, from where a protean procession against the “high cost of living” is due to leave around 2 p.m. The police used tear gas on several occasions to respond to several hundred demonstrators, most of them masked and dressed in black, some of whom fired fireworks.

In Clermont-Ferrand, several hundred people, many of them young people, marched in the streets behind a red banner “one solution, revolution”. “We are here because we have been shouting our demands for three weeks and they have not been heard,” says Lise, 16 years old.

In Lyon, police dispersed with tear gas grenades nearly 300 people gathered in front of Lyon-3 University shortly after 10 a.m. after demonstrators began shouting “Siamo tutti antifascisti”.

Gare Montparnasse, around 150 young people gathered and then took to the rue de Rennes, chanting “Macron is making war on us and so are his police”. The police charged rue du Vieux Colombier and blocked a large part of the group between buildings and a police cordon.

On Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis, a procession of around 200 demonstrators, some masked, faced helmeted police officers in the middle of the morning, and the situation became tense. The police fired tear gas to repel the wild demonstration.

Mid-morning in Paris, two wild processions formed leading to the intervention of the police to disperse them, announced the police headquarters, reporting 61 arrests at 11 a.m.

Faced with rising fuel and energy prices and a “recession budget,” “if we don’t mobilize, the government won’t move,” Fabien Roussel, the communist candidate for the presidential election, declared on Saturday.

The fire which devastated a building of the Faculty of Letters of Rouen in Mont-Saint-Aignan early on Saturday is likely of “criminal origin” in view of the “first findings” made, indicated a source close to the matter.

The Paris headquarters of CNews was targeted by around a hundred people on Saturday, on the eve of a national day of mobilization, said the Paris police headquarters, which reported 21 arrests. Around 7 a.m., around a hundred “hooded individuals” blocked access to the parking lot in front of the building.

The Paris police headquarters on Friday banned undeclared gatherings and demonstrations in several sensitive areas of the capital, including the Champs-Elysées, Place de la Concorde and the surroundings of the Elysée, Matignon and the National Assembly.