At least 150,000 demonstrators took to the streets of Paris to protest a new law allowing gay marriage, a largely peaceful gathering that later turned violent as riot police battled hundreds of right-wingers, SIA reports citing Expatica.
Police said they had made a total of 293 arrests and that six people were injured in the course of Sunday's demonstration: four police officers, an AFP photographer and a protester.
Interior Minister Manuel Valls, in a statement, blamed the "extreme right" for the violence.
"These incidents were provoked by several hundred individuals, most from the extreme right and the (nationalist) Identity Bloc, who violently attacked police," he added.
The rally came as the jury at the Cannes film festival in southern France on Sunday awarded its Palme d'Or top prize to the sexually graphic lesbian love story "Blue is the Warmest Colour" by French-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche.
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