Paris breaks out in protests as Emmanuel Macron wins French election

Demonstrators marched on the streets of central Paris after President Emmanuel Macron bagged his second five-year term on Sunday by defeating far-right leader Marine Le Pen. 

According to Reuters, videos and images of the riots display police officials spraying teargas on a crowd of young protestors in the neighborhood of Chatelet and charging a dozen others who gathered in Place de la République square. 

One video clip features hundreds of protestors yelling as the sound of glass shattering is heard in the background. 

44-year-old Macron was re-elected on Sunday and won his second term by a comfortable margin. As the first round of voting and Sunday’s runoff concluded, students outside Sorbonne in Paris and other universities protested to express their anger and resentment towards Macron. 

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Amid riots, multiple violent incidents have erupted in the city of Paris.

Police in Paris gunned down two people with a Heckler & Koch G36 assault rifle and left another individual severely injured after a vehicle “refused to stop” on Pont Neuf, the oldest bridge in the city. 

“A car came rushing towards police soon after midnight, and refused to stop,” said an investigating source, according to the Mirror.

“One of the police officers opened fire, killing two people and wounding a third,” the source added. 

In the wee hours of Monday, an IGNP investigations unit and an examining magistrate visited the scene, which was closed for regular traffic. 

The injured person was a woman who was shot in her arm while traveling in the back of the vehicle, according to police officials at the scene. 

The woman was taken to the itié-Saplêtrière hospital “for urgent treatment,” the investigating source revealed. 

“It seems that they were simply in a car that was being driven erratically,” the source said while suggesting that no one in the car was armed.