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Demonstration of "yellow vests" in Paris, December 8, 2018. REUTERS / Benoit Tessier / File Photo

With the act 45 of the "yellow vests" should we expect Saturday hectic? If participation in recent months was low, this Saturday's rally is titled "September 21, Historic Mobilization." Two other demonstrations are also planned this Saturday in the capital: one for the climate and the other against the pension reform. The police are afraid of overflowing.

The lights are red in the capital. Heritage Days, a march for the climate, demonstration against the pension reform, and therefore the announced return of "yellow vests".

They predict a rebound, a new breath and anticipate a participation of magnitude as last December when they were then several thousand in the streets of Paris. For Jerome Rodrigues , one of the figures of the movement wounded in the eye in January, " it will be a revealing event because many people will go to Paris ".

" To say that the crisis of yellow vests would be behind us would appear presumptuous, " said the Minister of Cohesion Territories, Jacqueline Gourault, Thursday in the press.

The action of "yellow vests" combined with climate events will disrupt the Heritage Days scheduled this weekend.

Some sites, including those of the institutions, will be closed. This is the case of the Ministry of National Education or the Prefecture of Police. The Elysee will be open, however, an opportunity for ultra-radical protesters who call indeed to " invade and break the palaces of the Republic ."

The Élysée accessible on registration

The presidency, however, has taken the lead, the place will be accessible only after registration on the internet.

The doors of Matignon will also remain open. " Edouard Philippe does not want to deprive the French of this republican moment ," according to one of his close advisers. " It should move a little, " worries the same source, fearing violence black block.

More generally, in the streets, the Ministry of the Interior, opened only two hours in the morning, has provided a reinforced device comparable to that implemented last December at the height of the violence that had arisen in the wake movement of "yellow vests".

Precautions that are also explained by the authorities' fear of seeing all these events converge in a single gathering.

Emmanuel Macron hoped Friday that the events scheduled for Saturday, at the same time as the Heritage Days, take place "in calm." " It's good that people are expressing themselves (...) it must be done in a calm atmosphere. I call everyone that it can be done in good intelligence, concord and in the calm so that our youngest and our youngest can visit the buildings, enjoy, "commented the President of the Republic on the sidelines. a visit, in Seine-et-Marne, of the house of painter Rosa Bonheur on the occasion of Heritage Days.

Saturday 21, Paris

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Aude Lancelin (@alancelin) September 19, 2019