Last week (1st December) there was huge amount of violence with 300 wounded on civilians and 200 wounded in the police. But this Saturday, after a week of bullshit propaganda and all the political leaders praising pacifism, we go back to the usual stats: 1000 arrests, 300 civilian wounded and 15 wounded on the police. The whole movement was about demonstrating calmly and not provoking the police...
It's just because the cops did their job this time. They made preventive arrests before the protest.
People couldn't access the main streets of Paris with any object that could be used against the police.
They even got arrested for having goggles or gas masks, which they did just to protect themselves from the gas the police throws at them randomly.
The "Ministre de l'Interieur" who's in charge is just an idiot. He has no clue how to deal with such a thing. The cops had to make him change his tactics the week before the last protest. Otherwise, there would have been much more violence.