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		</div><p>Protesters in Paris have attacked a police car with two officers inside with iron bars and set it alight in a dramatic unleashing of new anti-police violence, as officers across France took to the streets to denounce violence they say has been repeatedly directed at them.</p>
<p>Police have launched an attempted murder investigation following the car attack, which left one of the officers in hospital.</p>
<p>Protesters in Paris and elsewhere allege police have instigated violence during a series of demonstrations against controversial labour reforms.</p>
<p>&#8220;Everybody hates the police!&#8221; they chanted at the Place de la Republique in Paris, where several hundred police officers gathered on their lunch break to condemn &#8220;anti-cop hate&#8221;. The protesters were dispersed with pepper spray.</p>
<p>Paris police chief Michel Cadot told a news conference that about 15 protesters, some masked, attacked the car and threw a Molotov cocktail at it, setting it alight.</p>
<p>The male driver was attacked when he got out of the car and was taken to hospital. His female partner suffered slight injuries.<br />
Mr Cadot denounced a level of violence &#8220;rarely reached, extremely shocking&#8221;.</p>
<p>But Vanina Giudicelli, one of the protesters at the Republique, said the police gathering was &#8220;a real provocation&#8221;.</p>
<p>She said: &#8220;Since the first demonstration on March 9, we notice that they generate the violence. We have been sprayed by gas, hit with batons, arrested.&#8221; She had no known connection to the attack on the police car.</p>
<p>Jean-Claude Delage, secretary-general of the Alliance police union, denounced an &#8220;escalation of violence&#8221; in the labour protests and said some people were harassing police officers with projectiles and Molotov cocktails and even hitting them with bars.</p>
<p>&#8220;Troublemakers provoke clashes in the middle of peaceful protests. So it&#8217;s very complicated for police forces to isolate and arrest them,&#8221; Mr Delage said.</p>
<p>French President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday that more than 350 police officers have been injured in clashes and 60 people have been convicted amid the labour reform protests.</p>
<p>Interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve offered his &#8220;full support&#8221; to police following the weekly cabinet meeting. He said the police have instructions to take &#8220;firm action&#8221; against those involved in violent clashes.</p>
<p>Jean-Marc Falcone, general director of the police, told Europe 1 radio: &#8220;Anti-cop hatred comes from a small portion of the population&#8230; but these 10% are very violent.&#8221; Den Hond and Elaine Ganley contributed to the story.</p>
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