Demonstrations of October 24: in Paris, only the route between Porte d'Italie and Porte de Vincennes is authorized after the rejection of the organizers' appeal

A week after act 1 of their mobilization against the high cost of living was marked by looting and violence on the sidelines of the processions, yellow vests, unions, high school students and students marched again.

In Paris, the procession will have to set off at 1 p.m. from the Porte d'Italie to the Porte de Vincennes, on the edge of the capital, after the police headquarters modified the route defined the day before with the inter-union association on Friday evening. A few hours before departure, Saturday October 24, the administrative court rejected the appeal of the organizers of the demonstration, who contested this last minute change. Follow our live stream.

• Laurent Nuñez sends a message of “support” to his troops. the Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñez spoke in Vincennes, near the arrival point of the new route of the Parisian mobilization authorized by the police headquarters. “We have significant calls for disruption, from political movements or quite simply from delinquents,” he declared. “You have the support of the hierarchy and you have the support of the minister,” he told his troops. “I know that you act within a legal and regulatory framework, I know that everything you do is proportionate,” he added.

• Numerous bans on demonstrations and restricted access areas. In Marseille, the prefecture finally granted authorization “by way of exception” to the inter-union demonstration. The administrative court then partially suspended the prefectural decree prohibiting any demonstration on Saturday in municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants in Bouches-du-Rhône, while in Lyon (Rhône), demonstrations are prohibited in a large part of downtown Lyon. Although a union demonstration will be held in Strasbourg, demonstration bans have been taken in many cities including Nancy, Metz, Besançon, Belfort, Rouen, Le Havre and Toulon. In Limoges, where the town hall was burned down on the 17th, the administrative court suspended on Saturday morning the order taken by the prefecture to prohibit gatherings of more than ten people, as well as that establishing a curfew in certain streets.