French police forces fire tear gas to disperse protesters from Champs Elysees avenue on July 14, 2019. (Photo: AFP/ VNA)

The famous boulevard was reopened to traffic as soon as the parade finished, but a few hundred protesters from the grassroots ‘yellow vests’ movement tried to occupy it. Some tried to block the road with metal barricades, dustbins, and other debris.

Earlier a French police source and a court source said 152 people – whom they linked to the 'yellow vests' – had been detained near the Champs Elysees as they tried to stage a protest. The number of ‘yellow vest’ protesters has dwindled to a few hundred recently from a high of around 300,000 nationwide in November when demonstrations started against fuel price hikes and later morphed into a general discontent against Macron’s policies and government.