Photos show Paris streets erupting in protest and 'extreme and unprecedented violence'
The "Yellow Vest" protest movement is made up largely of people that are angry about rising fuel taxes and wider inequality in France
Saturday's protests took over central Paris. Here, demonstrators are pictured at the Place de l'Etoile.
Riot police were dispatched to the protests.
Protestors lit fires near the Arc de Triomphe.
Macron met with police firefighters on Sunday, and visited damaged buildings in the city.
A woman was wounded by a water canon as protesters clashed with riot police.
Teargas surrounded protestors as they demonstrated.
Graffiti that says "the yellow vests will triumph" and disparages President Macron was scrawled on monuments like the Arc de Triomphe.
Cleanup operations were underway on Sunday.
Protestors and the police faced off on Paris' streets.
Firefighters worked to extinguish flaming cars in the center of the city.
President Macron has asked the prime minister and the main political parties to meet with Yellow Vest representatives in an effort to diffuse the situation.
Source: CNN.
Those surveying the damage on Sunday found that the protests left burned cars and smashed stores in several of the wealthiest neighborhoods of Paris.
The streets were left lined with vandalized and torched cars.
Businesses, like this restaurant, were heavily damaged.
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