The police detained 300 participants in the protest in Paris.

French police had been forced to use tear gas against demonstrators, held on 19 March in Paris, reports AFP.

After completion of the protest, held in Paris as part of the March 19 general strike in France, several hundred demonstrators pelted police with stones began to burn and waste containers on the streets surrounding the Square Nation. In a clash with demonstrators injured varying degrees of severity were nine police officers. Around 300 participants of the protest action were arrested, 49 will be charged, said police.

Clashes with the police and the protest ended in Toulouse. In order to disperse groups of demonstrators throwing bottles at police, law enforcement officers with rubber batons. In Toulouse, injured a policeman. The number of detained demonstrators not specified.

According to the authorities in a nationwide strike, which took place throughout France, was attended by about 1,2 million people. Representatives of trade unions organized a protest, claiming that it was attended by at least 3 million people in France. The demonstrators demanded that President Nicolas Sarkozy to review the anti-crisis program of government to increase wages and to stop the reduction of civil servants.