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<\/a><\/p>\nThe French government says it will consider imposing a\u00a0state of emergency in the wake of the country’s worst\u00a0civil unrest in more than a decade, which has caught authorities off guard.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Two weeks of nationwide protests against fuel\u00a0taxes and living costs by the “yellow vest” movement have shaken the county to its roots but\u00a0President Emmanuel Macron remains\u00a0defiant after calling the protesters “thugs”.<\/span><\/p>\n Macron was to\u00a0hold an emergency meeting\u00a0with the prime minister and interior minister later on Sunday to\u00a0discuss the riots, a day after\u00a0accusing\u00a0protesters of seeking chaos in the European country.<\/span><\/p>\n “We have to think about the measures that can be taken so\u00a0that these incidents don’t happen again,” government spokesman Benjamin\u00a0Griveaux said.<\/span><\/p>\n On Saturday, groups of young men with faces masked, some carrying metal\u00a0bars and axes, rioted on the streets of central Paris,\u00a0setting a dozen vehicles ablaze and torching\u00a0buildings.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI will always respect debate and I will always listen to opposition but I will never accept violence,\u201d Macron told a news conference at the G20 summit in Argentine\u2019s Buenos Aires.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cNo cause justifies that authorities are attacked, that businesses are plundered, that passers-by or journalists are threatened, or that the Arc du Triomphe (monument) is defiled,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n Macron also stressed that France would bring to justice anyone responsible for the violence.<\/span><\/p>\n Scores of people have been injured and more than 200 others been arrested in clashes between protesters and police in the capital, Paris, alone.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThose guilty of this violence don\u2019t want change, they don\u2019t want improvements, they want chaos. They betray the causes that they pretend to serve and which they manipulate,\u201d Macron said. \u201cThey will be identified and brought to justice for their actions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n French officials said at least 75,000 people had turned out across France for the so-called yellow vest protests on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n It was the third weekend in which people staged protests against the government\u2019s economic reforms resulting in fuel tax hikes. Previous protests had already ended with violence, with two people killed and over 600 injured.<\/span><\/p>\n On Saturday, riot police forces in Paris used tear gas to disperse demonstrators after they were targeted by protesters hurling rocks and other projectiles.<\/span><\/p>\n