#antiMarconProtestors #President Emmanuel Macron<br />An astonishing video of uniformed fire fighters and elite riot police meeting for an apparently pre-arranged fight have emerged in France.<br /><br />The two rival groups confronted each other on a council estate in north east Paris yesterday.<br /><br />The armed CRS, for police Republican Security Companies, wear full body armour and carry shields and batons, while their opponents wear distinctive silver helmets.<br /><br />After a charge by the CRS, there is hand-to-hand fighting, before the police throw tear gas grenades.<br />If followed disturbances earlier in the day during a march by the firefighters, who were on the street calling for better pay and working conditions.<br /><br />‘The firefighters had been roughed about by the CRS and were not happy about it,’ said a witness.<br /><br />‘A group of them pulled away from the main body of demonstrators and there confrontation with a CRS unit that seemed to be pre-arranged.<br /><br />‘Things got very violent, and the confrontation was only broken up when the CRS started throwing tear gas grenades.’<br /><br />The video of the trouble was posted by the independent news outlet Hors Zone (Out of the zone) Press on Twitter.<br />Earlier in the day, there had been fighting on the main route of the protest march, which was between Republique and Nation squares.<br /><br />Some of the protesting firemen even set themselves on fire, before the flames were extinguished by colleagues.<br /><br />There have been continual street protests and strikes in France for the past six weeks in protests against new pension reforms being introduced by President Emmanuel Macron’s government.<br />So-called Yellow Vests, demonstrators named after their trademark fluorescent motoring jackets, have also been on the street since November 2018.<br /><br />They started off complaining about rising fuel charges, but are now a mass movement who want Mr Macron to resign.<br />#antiMarconProtestors #President Emmanuel Macron<br />An astonishing video of uniformed fire fighters and elite riot police meeting for an apparently pre-arranged fight have emerged in France.<br /><br />The two rival groups confronted each other on a council estate in north east Paris yesterday.<br /><br />The armed CRS, for police Republican Security Companies, wear full body armour and carry shields and batons, while their opponents wear distinctive silver helmets.<br /><br />After a charge by the CRS, there is hand-to-hand fighting, before the police throw tear gas grenades.<br />If followed disturbances earlier in the day during a march by the firefighters, who were on the street calling for better pay and working conditions.<br /><br />‘The firefighters had been roughed about by the CRS and were not happy about it,’ said a witness.<br /><br />‘A group of them pulled away from the main body of demonstrators and there confrontation with a CRS unit that seemed to be pre-arranged.<br /><br />‘Things got very violent, and the confrontation was only broken up when the CRS started throwing tear gas grenades.’<br /><br />The video of the trouble was posted by the independent news outlet Hors Zone (O
