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Employees and civil servants are called by unions to strike for their salaries, young people and retirees to join them in demonstration. 500,000 to 700,000 people outside Paris are expected in the streets and 40,000 to 80,000 people in the capital.

DECRYPTION - Who really are the student leaders who are calling for the blockades to continue?

Little by little, student mobilization is losing ground. After two weeks of school holidays and the commitment made by the government to transform and then reform Parcoursup by 2028, the major day of mobilization planned for Monday, November 2 resulted in some 41 high schools blocked, i.e. ten times fewer than at the height of the movement at the beginning of October. But for the student figures who have become stars of television sets and social networks in recent weeks, the time has certainly not come to give up. “As long as we do not have the 10 billion (additional budget for National Education, Editor's note), the immediate repeal of Parcoursup, we will continue to block. Sébastien Lecornu is afraid that it will last until the presidential election, that's what we hope if we have not won our case,” says Soumaya Sarré, spokesperson for the High School Federation of Neighborhoods, created on October 4.

The route in Paris proposed by the prefecture between Republic and Nation validated by the courts

The administrative court validated on Wednesday the alternative route proposed by the police headquarters concerning the demonstration for wages and youth on Thursday in Paris between the Places de la République and de la Nation, contested by the organizers.

The inter-union and high school and student organizations had initially proposed a route going from Place de la Bastille to Place de la Concorde, not far from the National Assembly.

The police headquarters banned this route on Wednesday, on the grounds that “this demonstration takes place in an extremely tense social context marked in particular by the urban riots that occurred in the capital” on October 17.

70,000 police and gendarmes mobilized, like last October 31, declared Nuñez

Some 70,000 police officers and gendarmes will be mobilized on Thursday in France in view of the national call for a strike launched by the country's main unions to defend wages and employment, said Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez. “It is exactly the same” system “as that of October 31,” explained the minister on Wednesday during a press point at Place Beauvau, promising “an extremely firm response” to possible “exactions” and “excesses”.

Machine-translated from French