Public anger against the French government’s renewed measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 has re-invigorated the Yellow Vest protest movement.

Authorities deployed a heavy police presence in the capital as several hundred demonstrators gathered at two squares.

Yellow Vest protesters returned to the streets of Paris, for what they had dubbed act 72 of the long-running movement.

French security forces fired teargas and clashed with anti-government "Yellow Vest" protesters who were demonstrating in Paris in defiance of a ban on mass gatherings that aims to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

France has banned police forces from using tear gas grenades loaded with explosives, which have on many occasions severely injured or maimed anti-government protesters.

A French officer has been caught on camera brutally beating up a protester detained at a rally, prompting a police probe into the latest instance of police violence.

Clashes broke out between protesters and police during the 62nd consecutive weekend of demonstrations.

Nearly 16,000 people took to the streets of Lyon, as part of a new day of action against the government's planned reform of the pension system.

France’s ongoing general strike has entered its fourth week, surpassing the 1995 movement which forced the government to withdraw right-wing pension reforms.

Thousands of labor unionists and 'yellow vests' marched together in Paris.