ParisProtests across France led to at least 272 arrests, Iranian state news agency Mehr reported.
Pupils and students join protests over fuel prices, low wages and the cost of living.
The interior ministry says police used tear gas and batons in Paris, Lyon and Strasbourg and blocked marchers from government buildings.
The ministry says rioters burned a Lyon tourist office, looted Marseille shops and blocked firefighters.
The government fears a call for a renewed yellow vest movement will widen the protests.
How each outlet framed it
- Mehr News Agency leans critical
- frames French police as the aggressor, stressing "brutality" against "largely peaceful" youths and omitting the looting and arson the ministry reported
Sources: Mehr News Agency