France cleans up Champs-Elysees after yellow vest rioting

Paris cleaned up one of the world's most glamorous avenues Saturday after resurgent rioting by yellow vest protesters angry at President Emmanuel Macron stunned the nation.

Luxury stores, restaurants and banks on the Champs-Elysees assessed damage Sunday after they were ransacked or blackened by life-threatening fires.

Tourists took pictures as shop owners tried to repair broken windows and city workers scrubbed away graffiti, much of it targeting Macron.

The renewed violence by a movement that had been fizzling in recent weeks was a wakeup call to a president seen as favouring the elite.

Macron promised a crackdown on troublemakers he said "want to destroy the republic, at the risk of killing people."
On the Champs-Elysees, an eerie calm replaced the hours-long chaos of the day before on the street that Parisians call "the most beautiful avenue in the world."