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Why is Paris moving Saturday's march to the city's edge?
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The prefecture cites an extremely tense context. Paris police have banned the central routes from Bastille to Nation and toward Concorde, allowing one march only between Porte de Bagnolet and Porte de Charenton, to keep order and preserve the right to demonstrate. The CGT and Yellow Vests must merge there. A curfew also returns to two central districts overnight.
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Behind the route change sits a security surge: 70,000 police and gendarmes are being deployed across France.
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Interior minister Laurent Nuñez warned of a very high risk of urban violence: The analysis of these calls leaves no doubt about the intentions of their authors to commit new violent acts.
“The analysis of these calls leaves no doubt about the intentions of their authors to commit new violent acts.”
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- AdnkronosFrance, prefecture bans tomorrow's Yellow Vests and Cgt march in central Paris
- AdnkronosFrance, prefecture bans Yellow Vests and CGT march in central Paris tomorrow
- AdnkronosFrance, night curfew returns to Paris in two central districts over the weekend
- AdnkronosFrance, night curfew returns to Paris, in two central areas over the weekend
- Le Monde.frOctober 31 mobilisations: wearing a Halloween mask at protests carries a one-year prison sentence, threatens Laurent Nuñez
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