Reporter caught in tear gas describes RIOTS in France: 'It EXPLODED'

[GUNFIRE]. >> Brian: STUDENT LEADERS ARE. CALLING FOR MORE PROTESTS IN. FRANCE AFTER SAYING NEW. GOVERNMENT CONCESSIONS DO NOT GO. FAR ENOUGH. FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON. SAID MONDAY THAT A STATE OF. EMERGENCY IS NOT NECESSARY FOR. REMAINS AS AN OPTION IF UNREST. HE IS CAN A RATES. "NEW YORK POST" REPORTER GABRIEL.

BALMY WAS CAUGHT IN THE CHAOS. WHEN PEACEFUL PROTEST TURNED. VIOLENT ON SATURDAY. TEAR GOES LEAVING HER SCRAMBLING. FOR GAS MASK WHICH LUCKILY SHE. HAD. GABRIEL JOINS YOU NOW. GABRIELLE, FIRST OFF THEY. ASSIGNED YOU TO THIS. YOU KNEW IT COULD BE UGLY. BECAUSE YOU SAW WHAT HAPPENED. LAST WEEK. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE HOW THE. RIOTS STARTED AND HOW THEY. ESCALATED? MASSIVE MARCH OVER 100,000.

PEOPLE. IT WAS VERY ORDERLY. THE POLICE, YOU HAD THE RIOT. POLICE AND MILITARY POLICE, THEY. WERE LEADING THE CROWD. IT WAS VERY PEACEFUL FOR THE. FIRST FEW HOURS AND THEN ALL OF. A SUDDEN IT EXPLODED. >> Brian: WHEN IT GOT DARK? >> YEAH, WHEN IT GOT DARK, WHEN. THEY REACHED THE END POINT OF. THE MARCH DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. ANYMORE. TENSIONS HAD BEEN MOUNTING. NEW PEOPLE I SAW SORT OF JOIN.

THE PROTEST TOWARDS THE END. WE SAW SOME PEOPLE ARRIVIVE BY. METRO. THEY WERE DRESSED DIFFERENTLY, HIDING THEIR FACES. THEY HAD MASKS. AND THAT SORT OF WHEN I COULD. SEE THINGS STARTED TO SHIFT. >> YOU KNOW IT'S HAPPENING IN. OTHER COUNTRIES, ALBANIA, CERTAINIA, ITALY, HAPPEN ALL. OVER, SOME PEOPLE THINK. SPREADING WHEN YOU TALK TO THEM. PAUSE YOU SPEAK FRENCH, WHAT DID. THEY WANT? WHY WERE THEY THERE? >> IT WASN'T SO MUCH LINKED AT. THIS POINT TO THE INITIAL HIGH. SCHOOL STUDENT PROTEST.

PEOPLE THERE ON SATURDAY. IT WAS A GENERAL SORT OF COST OF. LIVING THAT THEY WERE. COMPLAINING ABOUT. THERE IS NOT ENOUGH JOBS, THEY. ARE NOT MAKING ENOUGH MONEY. THEY CAN'T AFFORD TO PUT FOOD ON. THE TABLE. BUT, ALSO, ANTIGOVERNMENT. THEY ARE FED UP WITH IMMANUEL. MACRON WHO IS ON HIS WAY OUT. ANYWAY IT WAS JUST LIKE A VERY. GENERAL. >> Brian: UNREST. LACK OF OPPORTUNITY? >> YES. >> Brian: NO ONE KNEW WHO YOU. WERE. THEY DIDN'T KNOW YOU ARE WERE A.

JOURNALIST. >> THEY DIDN'T. I DIDN'T HAVE A PRESS VEST OR. ANYTHING LIKE THAT. >> Brian: WHEN THAT SECOND WAVE. COME IN WHO DO YOU THINK THEY. WERE? WERE THEY OLDER? >> NO. THEY WERE YOUNGER. PEOPLE LIKE I SAY I -- I WOULD. GIVE THEM 18 TO 20. >> Brian: SECOND WAVE WAS 18 TO. 22? >> EARLY 20'S. YOU KNOW, I THINK IT WAS. FACTIONS OF THE FAR LEFT, MAYBE. SOME IMMIGRANT GROUPS TOO THAT. WE TALKED ABOUT.

>> Brian: MACRON SAID I'M GOING. TO MAKE THE CLASSROOMS BETTER. MAKE THE CLASSROOM SIZE. SHORTER -- SMALLER BUT SAID NOT. ENOUGH PALESTINIANIAN FLAGS TOO. >> THE PROTEST MOVEMENT HAS. EVOLVED INTO SUCH A LARGER. PROTEST. EVERYBODY WITH A GRIEVANCE IS. JOINING IN THIS MOVEMENT. IT'S GOTTEN VERY FAR FROM THE. INITIAL HIGH SCHOOL PROTEST. >> Brian: "NEW YORK POST". GABRIELLE FAMILIY, LOOK FORWARD. TO.