Paris (EFE).- A total of 406 police officers and 61 demonstrators were injured during the altercations that took place in different French cities in the framework of the protests against the pension reform on May 1, according to a new balance from the Minister of Interior, Gerald Darmanin.
The minister, in an interview with the BFMTV channel, also announced the arrest of 540 people, 305 of them in Paris, and attributed the incidents to ultra-left groups.
In the interview Darmanin charged strongly against the leader of the radical left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, whom he reproached for not having condemned the attacks against the forces of order.