Mobilization of October 17: “For the moment, we do not have a global agreement on an itinerary” for the Parisian procession, announces the police prefect

The disagreement concerns the place of arrival of the demonstration, the prefecture refusing an arrival in the center of Paris.

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The Paris police chief, Patrice Faure, announced Friday October 16 that there was no agreement between his services and the organizers of Saturday's mobilization on the route of the Parisian procession. Speaking to the press after a meeting with representatives of the organizers, Patrice Faure affirmed that his services were "working" on an agreement "with all the applicants". The disagreement concerns the place of arrival of the demonstration, the prefecture refusing an arrival in the center of Paris.

More than 100,000 demonstrators in the streets? Laurent Nuñez asked Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu to convene an interministerial crisis unit, AFP learned from the Interior Minister's entourage. According to authorities' estimates, approximately between 70,000 and 140,000 people could demonstrate on Saturday in France, in very different forms depending on the location.

High school students and yellow vests united. The yellow vests announced a thousand actions to defend purchasing power, hoping to have an impact in the middle of the budget debate. The main youth organizations fighting since mid-September for better learning conditions have called to join this mobilization, which also brings together farmers and VT drivers.

"In this context, excesses are anticipated, in the processions, particularly in Paris and in large cities, which the ultra-left movement constituted as a bloc will probably seek to degenerate through habitual actions of attacking the police and attempted abuses on the routes", further fears the entourage of the Minister of the Interior.

“At this stage, around 500 actions are planned and more than 90 events are being structured” for tomorrow, the entourage of Laurent Nuñez, the Minister of the Interior, announced to franceinfo.

“We want to be able to demonstrate near places of power to make them understand through our numbers today our anger, our determination, our demands,” assured Coppélia Mooreau, member of the Interfac IDF committee.

Interfac IDF declared a demonstration between Place de la République and Place de la Concorde. This route was refused to him by the police headquarters which highlighted "serious risks of disturbances to public order", but offered him, "in the interest of reconciling the freedom to demonstrate and the safety of all, an alternative route, linking Republic to Nation".

“For the moment, we do not have a global agreement on a procession, a route. We are working on it,” declares Patrice Faure, Paris police prefect.