Bella Ciao at the police blockade. Thousands of activists danced along

While the protests in Paris, the capital of France, continue today, there were moments that reduced the tension when a brass band suddenly played their instruments in the middle of the marching cortege on the city streets.

The musicians mingled with the crowd and started playing the melodies of the famous Italian anthem Bella Ciao, which has become the symbol of European acts, one after another.

According to BBC correspondent Pierre-Antoine Denis directly from the capital, those in the official cortege participated in the songs played at once by dancing and singing the anthem in unison.

THE NEW WORLD ORCHESTRA THAT RESISTS THE GAS CLOUD

Musical resistance in the streets is not actually the first. Orchester du Nouveau Monde (New World Orchestra), founded by approximately 400 activist musicians, organized an open-air concert in République Square on October 17, with the permission of the governor, to support the students.

Before the concert started, the police intervened in the area with pepper gas and stun grenades, creating great tension.

The musicians, whose eyes were burning and having difficulty breathing, did not leave their instruments under the gas cloud and continued to play for 20 minutes until the conditions became completely impossible; Those moments were spread around the world through Brut and international news agencies.

70 THOUSAND POLICE POLICE ARE ON THE STREETS ACROSS THE COUNTRY

Behind these songs on the streets lies a huge anger against the high cost of living and collapsing public services.

The government deployed 70 thousand police officers on the streets to prevent a repeat of the looting and clashes that occurred the previous weekend.

As part of security measures, soldiers patrol the streets of the capital, shopkeepers block their shop windows with boards, and museums do not accept visitors.

Although the main march accompanied by a band started calmly in Paris, police in Lyon, the country's third largest city, fired tear gas to disperse the crowd.

Interior Minister Laurent Nunez announced that 135 people were detained across the country in the early afternoon.

Announcing that the detentions were made after fireworks, ball bearings and other materials that could be used as weapons were seized during preventive searches, Nunez said, "There are serious calls for chaos from political groups and criminals, we must be on guard."