Paris gendarme hit by firebomb: “Possibly prevented a disaster”

A French gendarme was lightly injured in Paris on Saturday after being hit by a Molotov cocktail during protests. Speaking to BFMTV, he described an exceptionally intense situation in which a highly hostile group attacked the gendarmes. He said he did not see the firebomb coming but felt it, and that a disaster may have been narrowly avoided.