Protesters in France threw petrol bombs at police during rallies marking the international workers’ holiday of May Day, which turned violent in many capitals across Europe.
One Paris police officer was seriously burnt and two others injured in confrontations with protesters.
A small group of Italian demonstrators clashed with police as they tried to break through a police barrier in the northern city of Turin.
The spokesman for Belgium’s Workers Party was knifed in the leg at a rally in Liege.
In Turkey, police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to break up demonstrations and arrested hundreds.
In Paris, television showed police officers trying to shake out flames from their riot gear and clouds of tear gas enveloping the streets around the Bastille monument.
The clashes foreshadowed the approaching confrontation between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, the two winners of the first round of France’s presidential election.
They will meet in a second-round vote on Sunday, and each verbally attacked the other at May Day rallies.
The centrist Mr Macron evoked the memory of a May Day 22 years ago as he tried to paint his eurosceptic, anti-immigration opponent as an extremist.
On that day, a young Moroccan man drowned after being pushed into the River Seine by supporters of Ms Le Pen’s National Front, led then by her father, Jean-Marie.
For her part, Ms Le Pen portrayed Mr Macron as a clone of the outgoing president, the highly unpopular Francois Hollande.
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