FRENCH authorities have banned yellow vest demonstrations in three cities on Saturday to prevent a new flare-up of violence linked to the increasingly radical anti-government protest movement, officials said on Thursday.
Local prefects in Avignon, Toulouse and Rouen said marches were being banned ahead of the 20th consecutive weekend of action to prevent further acts of violence and looting. In the southern town of Avignon, yellow vests have been forbidden from gathering between 9am and 12pm, local prefect Bertrand Gaume said. The prefect for the northern town of Rouen, Fabienne Buccio, for her part said that all yellow vest marches had been banned from the centre of town.
The Champs-Elysées protest ban was renewed for at least another week by Interior Minister Christophe Castaner on Wednesday, as President Emmanuel Macron’s government warned that it would react severely against any new outbreak of violence.
Military units from the anti-terrorism Sentinelle patrol force were deployed in Paris for the first time last week to back up riot police.
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