Paris
Paris riot police fired teargas Sunday in clashes with far-left activists in Paris during a climate change demonstration ahead of key UN talks after several thousand protesters had formed a human chain in the city.
Riot police moved in after a small group of protesters pelted officers with bottles and candles from one of the tributes to the victims of the November 13 attacks on the French capital. Around 100 people were arrested.
Around 4,500 activists had earlier linked hands in a peaceful protest near the site of the deadliest of the attacks, pleading for leaders to curb global warming.
The colourful human chain passed near the Bataclan concert hall where 90 people were killed in the suicide bombings and shootings.
Stretching for two kilometres (1.2 miles) along a wind-blown Boulevard Voltaire in eastern Paris, it was the first organised demonstration since the attacks claimed by the Islamic State in which 130 people died and hundreds were injured.
Out of respect for the dead, the protesters left a 100-metre (300-foot) gap in front of the mass of flowers and candles laid outside the Bataclan.
"Hear our voices! We are here!" cried the demonstrators ahead of the 195-nation UN summit being held just outside Paris, which aims to strike the first truly global accord to limit greenhouse emissions and avert a global climate disaster.
"For a climate of peace", read banners held by the protesters, while another said: "We need to take care, there is no planet B".
In emotional scenes and guarded by heavily armed police, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet visited the Bataclan memorial, met with a relative of one of the three Chilean victims and laid a large floral wreath.
But around two hours after the human chain dispersed, anti-capitalist militants who had gathered in the nearby Place de la Republique square that has become a rallying point for mourners after the attacks began to clash with police, AFP reporters said.
