Paris | France has announced a ban on yellow vest protests along the Champs-Élysées Avenue in Paris and in two other cities following weekend riots that left luxury stores ransacked, the Fouquet's restaurant in flames and several shops charred by arson fires.

Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said the ban will apply for an unspecified period in the neighbourhoods that have been "the most impacted" in the cities of Paris, Bordeaux and Toulouse, where repeated destruction has occurred since the yellow vest protest movement began in November.