While the yellow vests are mobilizing again for the start of the school year, Saturday, September 12 in Paris, the police chief of Didier Lallement warned that two demonstrations had been banned on the Champs-Élysées

"There is a concern for serenity on this avenue which is a showcase of our country. So I have banned these demonstrations", declared the prefect during a press point on the Place de l'Etoile, specifying that " there could be no destruction, no chaos on the Champs-Élysées ".

Some 2,300 people have indicated that they intend to participate in the rally on the famous avenue, and 7,000 have shown interest, according to the event's Facebook page.

From a police source, 4,000 to 5,000 demonstrators are expected in Paris, including 1,000 potentially violent people.

"Important" police device

Two other processions, declared, were on the other hand authorized to parade: one from the Place de la Bourse, in the center of the capital;

the other from Place Wagram, to the west.

"I hear about a dictatorship, but I note that there are possibilities of demonstrations [...] provided that they take place peacefully, that there is no destruction", underlined Didier Lallement, calling also to "respect for barrier gestures".

Without giving overall figures on the numbers mobilized, the prefect referred to an "appropriate", "important" device, with "mobility and responsiveness", in particular thanks to the deployment of 160 motorcyclists from the repression brigades of the violent action (BRAV-M).

Deployment of "supervisors" of LBD carriers

Didier Lallement confirmed the assistance, as of this Saturday, of a "supervisor" for each bearer of LBD in order to help "in the control and the good use" of this weapon, and the withdrawal of the old hand grenades of encirclement (GMD) replaced by a new model, deemed less dangerous, in accordance with the announcements of the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin on Friday.

The prefect also deemed "infantile" the call for "civil disobedience", launched by one of the figures of the yellow vests, Jérôme Rodrigues, by not showing his identity card to slow down the control operations.

"Our device is calibrated to be able to also carry out these checks", he assured.

Born on November 17, 2018, the citizen movement of yellow vests, anti-elite and which fights for more fiscal and social justice, is seeking its second breath after a first year in which it agitated France, between roundabout occupations and demonstrations sometimes violent.

With AFP

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