Early Tuesday morning, workers used a crane to remove a giant fluorescent yellow vest draped over the statue at the center of the square, then used pressure washers to blast graffiti off the monument.<\/p>\n
Louise Belanger, a volunteer who came to help with the cleanup, said she still could not apprehend the level of violence. \u201cNormally when you are 20 you should be optimistic, you should be starting to build something (\u2026) If you are only anger and violence, what are you going to do? This is sad for everybody in society,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
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In Paris alone, about 300 people have been sent before prosecutors following the Oct. 17 protests, the city prosecutor\u2019s office said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Darmanin said he had asked prosecutors to appeal any sentence they considered too lenient. \u201cPeople with no criminal record ending up in prison for property crimes is extremely rare, if not unheard of,\u201d he said, arguing that the French justice system will be \u201cextremely firm.\u201d<\/p>\n
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In Lille, he said, three men aged 20 to 25 with no criminal record were each sentenced to 10 months in prison and jailed immediately for looting a video game store in the city\u2019s old town.<\/p>\n
The National Assembly is launching an inquiry into the Oct. 17 violence and the authorities\u2019 policing strategy, its speaker, Ya\u00ebl Braun-Pivet, said, with findings expected \u201cby the end of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Protests continued Tuesday on a smaller scale. Some 400 people, mostly high school and university students, marched in the western city of Rennes, and about 750 in Lyon, under pouring rain.<\/p>\n
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