A national day of marches drew press unions, human-rights groups and residents opposing the bill’s restrictions on recording police and its expanded surveillance provisions. The Interior Ministry counted about 133,000 participants nationwide; organizers gave a substantially higher estimate. In Paris, violence and police responses became part of the news cycle, while organizers insisted that the central issue was protection of civil liberties and the right to document state power. The image is a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 photograph by Jeanne Menjoulet; the linked AFP video is for viewing through YouTube and is not a freely reusable asset.
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