French prosecutors opened an investigation for attempted murder of persons vested with public authority after a petrol bomb was thrown at security forces during Saturday protests in eastern Paris^2,5.

The Paris prosecutor's office said explosive devices were thrown at about 15 gendarmes and police officers and that initial injuries included second-degree burns⁵. No suspects had been arrested in connection with that incident, prosecutors said^2,4. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez described throwing a Molotov cocktail at a police line as a murder attempt¹.

The unrest came on a third weekend of demonstrations over living costs and education, with about 320,000 people estimated nationwide and about 70,000 police and gendarmes deployed⁵. The interior ministry said more than 770 people were arrested over the weekend⁵.