DIRECT. Mobilization of October 31: The inter-union will meet to decide on the follow-up to the mobilization after the decision of the Council of State

France is preparing to experience, Saturday October 31, its third day of social mobilization in three weeks. The causes denounced are always the following: the high cost of living, the insufficient resources of National Education or even the police management of the high school movement. More than 250 demonstrations are listed throughout France by the yellow vests on their site, while a source close to the Minister of the Interior counts 150 authorized parades.

This new mobilization coincides with the Halloween party, which is why an “exceptional” security system is “renewed and amplified”, according to Laurent Nuñez. Follow our live stream. • The inter-union will meet.

According to a press release from the student union, FAGE, the organizers of the October 31 demonstration in Paris will discuss together to decide on the follow-up to the mobilization. “We denounce a new obstruction of the right to demonstrate, a serious challenge to our right to express our demands and more broadly a voluntary endangerment of the processions,” is written in this text, denouncing the decision of the Council of State to validate the route of the demonstration desired by the Police Prefecture. • A high school union will not go against the decision of the State Council.

Questioned on franceinfo, Émilien Lajeunesse, federal representative of the High School Union in Hauts-de-Seine declared "accepting the route" after the decision of the Council of State to confirm the ban on the Bastille-Nation route for the Parisian demonstration on October 31, in favor of an alternative route between the gates of Bagnolet and Charenton. “It’s a little sad that we have to change the route so late,” he regrets, estimating that this decision will prevent “the businesses from being organized” and “the demonstration from being fully organized.” • The Police Headquarters route validated.

It is ultimately between the Porte de Bagnolet and the Porte de Charenton that the demonstrators should march. We learned on Saturday morning that the Council of State annulled the decision of the administrative court on Friday evening which had ruled in favor of the organizers who wanted a route between Bastille and Nation. The Council of State puts forward security reasons.

In a press release, the Prefecture • Around 70,000 police and gendarmes mobilized. Laurent Nuñez announced that some 70,000 police officers and gendarmes will be mobilized. This day of mobilization is considered "high risk" by the authorities, who fear "episodes of urban violence comparable to those of October 17", according to those close to the Minister of the Interior.

• Curfews in several cities. The Paris police headquarters has also ordered the establishment of a curfew in the areas of Place de la République and Châtelet-Les Halles for the nights of Saturday to Sunday then from Sunday to Monday from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. Unaccompanied minors are also affected by curfews in other cities, such as Bordeaux, Marseille, and Le Mans.

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