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PARIS, FRANCE - Around 300 people were detained and nine police officers injured in Paris Thursday after violence broke out at the end of massive protests over the economic crisis, police said.
Around 500 protestors confronted police at La Nation square as the demonstration was dispersing in the early evening, police said.
Some 100 of them, holding sticks and steel bars, began throwing projectiles at the officers.
Authorities detained 300 people but will only charge 49 of them while the rest were released after their identification cards were checked, police said.
Nine police officers were injured.
More than a million angry French workers had taken to the streets around in a nationwide strike to force President Nicolas Sarkozy to boost wages and protect jobs as the economic crisis deepens.
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