“The bosses caused the crisis, let them pay for it!” said another, while a third declared: “Hands off our public services!”

Protesters marched peacefully from the Place de la Bastille in the east of the city to the Place de l’Opera in the west, where skirmishes erupted between dozens of bottle-throwing youths and police in riot gear.

Officers repeatedly baton-charged a group of young men who tried to peel away from the demonstration and march towards Sarkozy’s official residence, the Elysee Palace, burning dustbins and smashing street furniture.

The demonstrators were tear-gassed and pushed back into streets lined with cinemas and restaurants, where they attempted to set up a road-block of burning bins and overturned at least one car and set it alight.

Let us learn from them ... thy decided to reduce their military forces outside France to save their economy.

So Sorry ... I do not mean to learn from them this Vandalism action but to learn from them to save our economy.