Perimeter around the Champs-Élysées, filtering points, controls in public transport: the New Year festivities will take place under high security in the tourist heart of Paris where should converge bylookers, tourists and "yellow vests", just like in Bordeaux or Nice. In the capital, a protection perimeter will be established from 16h Monday around the Champs-Elysees and the Place de l'Etoile, in a "context of terrorist threat" but also new mobilization of "yellow vests".
Excavations and palpations. They have promised to organize on the Avenue des Champs-Elysees "a festive and non-violent event" to celebrate the passage to 2019 "which will be rich in changes and victories," according to the description of their Facebook page. More than 8,300 people said Sunday noon that they would participate in this "act 8" and more than 61,000 were interested. Inside the perimeter, where alcohol and pyrotechnics are strictly forbidden, "security clearance, baggage and vehicle searches" will be held, according to the police headquarters, which asks the public to favor public transport. . Throughout the Paris region, controls in public transport and in stations are planned, as well as on the structuring roads.
Bordeaux and Nice under surveillance. The security and relief staff will also be reinforced in other cities in France, particularly in Bordeaux and Nice where "yellow vests" have called for the rally. In Bordeaux, the "yellow vests" have planned to fire a fireworks at midnight from the Pont d'Aquitaine, where they want to be in the "good mood". The prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes has announced "means police and gendarmes very important" for the night of the eve in the department, where "yellow vests" are given place Massena in Nice but also to their "HQ" from Saint-Isidore, a roundabout near the A8 motorway. For New Year's Eve 2017, nearly 140,000 members of the security and relief forces had been mobilized throughout the country.