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Macron Limits Saturday Protests to Union Routes and Orders Larger Security Deployment

The move concentrates authorised marches on union routes to prevent repeats of the looting and vandalism of 17 October by using a bigger, more visible security presence.

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À deux jours d’un nouveau samedi de mobilisation, Emmanuel Macron a annoncé jeudi 22 octobre 2026 que seules celles organisées par des syndicats seraient autorisées.
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Emmanuel Macron a dénoncé une volonté de l'ultragauche de «faire tomber la République». [Benoit Tessier / POOL / AFP]

Overview

  • President Emmanuel Macron announced on Thursday that only demonstrations organised by trade unions will be authorised for Saturday as prefects issue targeted bans or route restrictions in cities including Paris, Lyon and Nice.
  • The government ordered a 20% increase in policing and will deploy Sentinelle troops, elite units (GIGN, RAID, BRI), helicopters and armoured vehicles for the 24 October mobilisation.
  • Ministers and intelligence chiefs were summoned to the Élysée and Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu convened party leaders at Matignon to review failures of anticipation and coordinate responses after the violent scenes of 17 October.
  • Local officials and chambers of commerce have opened one-stop help desks and emergency grants for merchants hit by the pillaging, with Lyon’s CCI promising €3,000 per shop and the Métropole de Lyon pledging €10 million in support.
  • The unrest has already produced tangible spillovers: hundreds of arrests, judicial checks on some prefectural bans, and a rise in France’s 10-year bond yield above 5 percent that signals investor concern about political and budgetary stability.