A French police officer was engulfed in flames after being struck by a Molotov cocktail as violent riots swept across the country on Saturday.
The officer dropped to the ground on a Paris street as colleagues desperately used a fire extinguisher to put out the flames.
Masked protesters also smashed apart an effigy of Macron, while demonstrators in Paris hurled paving stones at riot police as officers responded with tear gas.
The unrest followed weeks of demonstrations by high school students demanding the equivalent of around £9billion in funding for the education system.
The protests have since grown into a wider movement drawing in
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