Overview

• An Interior Ministry note anticipates 350,000 to 500,000 participants on Thursday, roughly double last week’s count.
• About 80,000 police and gendarmes will be deployed with Centaure armored vehicles and water cannons as intelligence warns of a "hybrid" threat and possible early-morning blockades.
• SNCF and RATP unions urge mass walkouts, with the transport minister predicting a "journée noire"; the air-traffic controllers’ SNCTA has postponed its strike to 7–9 October while some Air France unions call staff to mobilize.
• Education unions across all levels join the action, pharmacists plan nationwide closures with emergency requisitions, and liberal physiotherapists are urged to shut clinics except for vital care.
• Dozens of marches are registered across France, Paris routing is under negotiation with police, and services expect several hundred radicals in major cities with up to 1,000 black blocs in the capital reported by Europe 1.