Scores arrested ahead of latest Paris protest

Police arrested around 100 protesters in Paris on Thursday in hopes of preventing new scenes of violence in the streets as thousands staged the latest march against French labour reforms.

Most were arrested for carrying objects that could be used as projectiles, police said, nine days after a previous protest had turned violent.

As President Francois Hollande vowed his Socialist government would "go all the way" to enact the reforms, about 2 000 riot police deployed to the historic Place de la Bastille where the march kicked off in the early afternoon.

The march was given the go-ahead after bitter negotiations in which the government first tried to ban it on security grounds, before backing down and agreeing to allow a short, tightly contained route.