"What good news! There are so many of you who want to attend the meeting on Sunday, December 5 that we are moving it from the Zénith in Paris to the Parc des Expositions in Villepinte," the now presidential candidate tweeted on Wednesday.
His entourage explained that in view of the number of registrations at the Zénith, where the candidate had rented a hall with 5,800 seats, he had made the decision to move the meeting to the Exhibition Center.
The doors will open at 1:00 p.m., and the public meeting will start at 3:00 p.m.
The Exhibition Center can accommodate a total of up to 30,000 people standing, 20,000 seated, but the capacity varies depending on the configurations chosen, told AFP the communication service responsible for the site.
The polemicist had previously indicated on BFMTV that a change of room was in "negotiation".
The CGT, Solidaires and anti-fascist activists had promised to demonstrate in the direction of the Zenith to "silence Zemmour".
The Municipal Council of the 19th arrondissement of Paris, where the Zénith is located, had him worried with the prefect of a "risk of disturbing public order".
Extreme left associations (Paris-Banlieue Antifascist Action) had also called for blocking access to the Zenith meeting from noon, with the slogan "Let's block the Zemmour Zénith!".
Some 3,000 demonstrators, according to the Paris police headquarters, took part on Saturday in the capital in a parade "against the far right and racism" and "against the ideology" of Eric Zemmour.
Very supervised by the police, the parade was punctuated by sporadic incidents after his departure.
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