French police have banned protests in parts of Paris on Thursday, as France braced for more demonstrations days after rallies degenerated into some of the worst street unrest in years, AFP reported.
Source: AFP via The Leaders Online
The ban, announced on Wednesday, runs from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm local time (0600 to 1800 GMT) and covers key landmarks including the Elysee presidential palace, both houses of parliament, the Louvre museum and the Champs-Elysees, AFP said. It also covers the Bastille and Republique squares and the Chatelet-Les Halles shopping area, which was heavily targeted by looters over the weekend.
After a weekend the government says it ‘lost control’ of
France's government has admitted it “lost control” during street violence last weekend, when masked youths clashed with police, looted shops and vandalised public buildings, AFP reported. The unrest began as cost-of-living protests and has damaged France's image abroad and rattled financial markets six months before presidential elections.
Paris authorities have also temporarily barred people in the capital and its surrounding area from carrying canisters or bottles of petrol or other fuel, and from possessing or carrying fireworks, under restrictions in force until Thursday, AFP reported via Jawawa.
Source: AFP via Jawawa
Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has pledged a large-scale security deployment for further protests planned this coming weekend, and accused ultra-left radical groups of drawing up a “plan for insurrection” that fuelled the unrest — a claim attributed to the prime minister, which Awaaz Punjab has not independently verified.
The ban came after President Emmanuel Macron, speaking in Doha, accused foreign leaders of exploiting the riots for election campaigns — remarks Awaaz Punjab reported separately on Thursday. Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader praised by US President Donald Trump on Tuesday, branded Macron's remarks “conspiratorial” in a post on X late on Wednesday, AFP reported.