High School and Student Mobilization: the Prefect Forbids the Demonstration Scheduled Thursday in Lyon
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A new mobilization is to take place on Thursday, in the middle of a school holiday, in many French cities at the call of the national student and high school coordinations.
The Prefect of the Rhône points in particular to an insufficient order service and risks of overflows. The Prefect of Isère has made a similar decision in Grenoble.
The demonstration declared by Unef between the Manufacture des Tabacs and Bellecour, on Thursday 22 October, is forbidden. The prefect invokes the violence of the last weeks.
While the curfew was once again extended in the Presqu'île de Lyon on Wednesday night, and this for the third consecutive day, the demonstration scheduled for Thursday 22 October in Lyon is forbidden by the Rhône prefecture. The Prefect of the Rhône, Étienne Guyot, took a decree to prevent the holding of a [...] Lyon: the prefecture forbids the high school demonstration that was to arrive in Bellecour this Thursday
After the violence that has shook Lyon in recent weeks, the Rhône prefecture hardens its tone.
The Prefect of the Rhône banned the demonstration declared by UNEF and the New Anti-capitalist Revolutionary Party for this Thursday, October 22, 2026 in Lyon. According to the prefecture, the violence observed during previous mobilizations and a route deemed too sensitive to Place Bellecour. See more
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