Violence of October 17: “There is clearly a huge surge”, yellow vests announce an “Act II” next Saturday

The coordination of yellow vests at the origin of the demonstrations last Saturday in France against the cost of living, which turned into chaos in several cities, announced Monday morning an “Act II” with new actions for Saturday as well as for October 31. On the site 17octetgiletjaune.net, this coordination posted a map of the mobilizations planned for October 24 with several dozen actions already scheduled.

Sunday evening, "what we said was that we were trying to give ourselves time and build (the mobilization for) November 5", the day when an inter-union called on the public-private sector to demonstrate, "but there is clearly a huge push for there to be an Act II", Benjamin Ball, editor of this site, explained to AFP.

“We will build in stages”

“We are going to follow this push, obviously. We are keeping the momentum for November 5 but we are going to build in stages, that is to say there will be a 24, a 31, and after that, a November 5.” Sunday evening, after the head of state's speech on television, this same coordination of yellow vests denounced an “empty speech” by Emmanuel Macron and asked to be received at the Élysée with representatives of various mobilized sectors.

On Saturday, “what we thought was going to happen on September 10, 2025 happened (during the Block Everything movement, launched on social networks, Editor’s note). On the 17th, there was a huge surge, but it was not yet sufficient,” said Benjamin Ball. On November 5, an inter-union CFDT, CGT, FO, Unsa, FSU, called for a strike and demonstration for wages, public services, employment and industry.