Protest of October 17th: the Yellow Gilets Back in France?
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A few hours from the demonstration scheduled for Saturday 17 October in Toulouse, the state services are preparing for a massive mobilization. The prefecture says it is ready to deal with any spillovers while...
The French government is expecting "quite significant demonstrations" on Saturday after the former yellow vest movement announced hundreds of public actions across the country to protest livelihood problems, joining high school students who have been protesting for a month over underfunding of public education and are taking to the streets again.
Faced with the day of protest scheduled for Saturday 17 October, Sébastien Lecornu triggers an interministerial crisis cell. Between fears of overflows and tensions around purchasing power, Matignon and...
Authorities expect up to 140,000 protesters to take to the streets tomorrow.
Initially led by high school students to demand better conditions for education, the mobilization on 17 October extended to students, trade unions and other professions. In some cities, groups of Yellow Gilets are re-forming to join the movement and call for a convergence of struggles. Faced with this mobilisation in preparation, Sébastien Lecornu announced the creation of a crisis cell.
According to the head of government's entourage, this decision was set up with the Ministry of the Interior at the initiative of Sébastien Lecornu's chief of staff.
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