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Bro, during Gezi protests, i got exposed to tear gas many times. It's a terrible thing, suddenly you feel as someone is choking you, it becames very hard to breathe, you cough violently, and it's awfully burns your eyes, tears come down. I saw many passed out.These are well tear gas. Most tear gas grenades used for riot control in France contain 7 active capsules of 10g of CS powder.
According to a police commissioner "We had in front of us protesters often equipped with gas masks or protection that seemed not to be affected by tear gas".
As for why police has no masks it's an interesting question. Actually,many in the video you posted were equipped with them,but these were Gendarmes. Majority of them were systematically equipped with them,however that didn't seem to be the case with units from the national police. Wonder why.
In your protests, i didn't saw not even one protestor coughing..... maybe French police is using some kind of "light" tear gas.