France deploys 70,000 officers as 135 arrested in cost-of-living protests

French police arrested 135 people as tens of thousands of officers were deployed for protests over the rising cost of living.

• Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said police arrested 135 people during Saturday protests over the rising cost of living.
• Nunez said officers seized ammunition, fireworks and homemade weapons during the security operations.
• Authorities deployed about 70,000 police and gendarmes, roughly 20 percent more than last week.
• Paris restricted the main march to the city's southeastern edge, away from the centre.