AFP reports that officials were forced to abandon the Paris leg of the Olympic Torch Relay Monday after the flame was extinguished four times for “security reasons”.
Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe announced the cancellation just after Green Party members of the city council hung the Tibetan flag along with a black banner with the Olympic rings turned into handcuffs over Paris city hall.
Although there were 3,000 police to help quell the protests, many wearing heavy body armour and some on roller blades, there were fears that the parade was spiralling out of control.
