Overview

• Thousands marched in Paris from Place d’Italie toward Place Vauban, with chants calling for President Emmanuel Macron to resign and placards urging higher taxes on wealthy individuals and companies.
• The Interior Ministry had anticipated up to 400,000 participants nationwide, yet authorities counted 85,000 by noon and deployed 76,000 police and gendarmes to oversee hundreds of actions.
• France’s CGT union later claimed nearly 600,000 people joined protests across the country, according to Le Parisien.
• A subgroup left the main Paris route for a Tesla showroom in Saint-Ouen, where about two dozen entered and flares filled the space with smoke as they shouted, "We hate billionaires."
• Demonstrations were largely calm with isolated disruptions, including attempts to block transport and access to industrial sites in several cities, and reports differed on how visible police were along the Paris march.