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The "yellow vests" are back in Paris on the occasion of the "act 45" movement. And the authorities fear a high-risk Saturday in the capital, when the Heritage Days or the Climate March must take place. The Ministry of the Interior and the Prefecture of Police fear a return of violence in a city spared by the excesses since March 16 and the rampage of stores on the Champs-Elysees.
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A consequent security device
Saturday, Paris will be the scene of several gatherings. Starting with the Heritage Days, which drain tens of thousands of people in places of power. But also a march for the climate, and a demonstration against the reform of the pensions with the call of FO. This is why the announced return of "yellow vests" worries the authorities. Especially as a security source argues the risks of "convergences between 'yellow vests' and Black Blocks who want to break everything" and infiltration of the March for Climate, with also the key acts of civil disobedience " .
The incidents occurred in Nantes last Saturday on the occasion of the "act 44", invite the greatest vigilance, according to this source. The security system will therefore be similar to that of 1 May with 7,500 security forces mobilized.
A prohibition order to protest
The prefect of police in Paris, as usual, has issued a prohibition order to protest. Implemented from Friday 17 hours, it concerns large areas of the capital including unpublished areas: Champs-Elysées and Avenue de la Grande Armée; National Assembly ; Hotel Matignon; Trocadero and Eiffel Tower; Senate; Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral ; Bois de Vincennes and Bois de Boulogne.
Calls on social networks
If, since the spring, the processions have been depopulated, the calls on the social networks to join the March for the Climate and to "march against the system in Paris" attract a number of people far superior to what has been observed the last ones weeks. Figure of the movement wounded in the eye in January, Jerome Rodrigues believes that "it will be a revealing event because many people will go to Paris".
Several institutions and museums have already given up opening Saturday for the European Heritage Days, and sometimes even Sunday, according to the Ministry of Culture.