Yellow vests on the Place de la Bourse, in Paris, Saturday, September 12.
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AFP
For their back-to-school mobilization after a long break, a few hundred "yellow vests" were gathered in Paris this Saturday at the end of the morning.
Some 200 demonstrators were already present around 10 a.m. on the Place de la Bourse, where the departure of the procession took place at noon.
Arrived shortly after 10 am, comedian Jean-Marie Bigard was greeted with hoots “Bigard collabo!
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Jean-Marie Bigard took refuge for a moment in a restaurant in the square before being forced to leave the premises.
Departure at 1 p.m. Place Wagram
About a hundred other people were gathered at Place Wagram, west of the capital, from where a second demonstration is due to start at 1 p.m.
“The movement is dead, I say it clearly, but we are here because nothing to lose.
It's a bit of a last-ditch, ”said Michael, a 43-year-old Parisian“ yellow vest ”.
"It's been a few months that the movement has failed, but it will never be dead," says Stéphane, 48, from Val-de-Marne, on the contrary.
“The more the layoffs will increase, the more it will wake up,” he anticipates.
On the Champs-Elysées, where two demonstrations were banned by the police headquarters, a large police force was deployed to carry out identity checks and searches of bags on the avenue and in the adjacent streets, well upstream .
Many traders also barricaded their windows, but no gathering of "yellow vests" was observed in the middle of the morning.
At 12 noon, the police had arrested 128 people because they were in possession of an object that "has no place in a demonstration - screwdriver, ice ax, cutting pliers, knives", announced the prefecture of police on Twitter.
# September 12 |
At 12:00, 1⃣2⃣8⃣ people were arrested by the @prefpolice.
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- Police Prefecture (@prefpolice) September 12, 2020
"There can be no destruction, chaos on the Champs-Elysées", warned the prefect of police Didier Lallement during a press point at the top of the avenue at the very beginning of the morning.
Police sources say 4,000 to 5,000 demonstrators are expected in Paris, including 1,000 potentially violent people.
Other gatherings are planned throughout the day in major cities in France (Marseille, Toulouse, Lyon, Lille, Nantes, Nice, Bordeaux or Strasbourg, etc.).
In Toulouse (southwest), which was one of the strongholds of the movement in the country, the demonstration was banned by local authorities in particular because of "the high rates of the spread of Covid-19".
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