Overview

• The CSA poll for Europe 1, CNews and Le Journal du Dimanche reports that 91% support banning violent infiltrators from demonstrations.
• A separate question finds 91% favor tougher sanctions against those who commit violence during protests.
• Support is broad across demographics, with women around 92–93% and men 89%, and a lower share among 25–34 year‑olds at roughly 80–84%.
• By political proximity, backing is strongest among Renaissance, RN and LR voters (about 93–98%), and lower though still majority on the left, including roughly 70–76% for EELV and LFI and 85–89% for PS.
• Context for the survey includes the 18 September mobilisations with about 309 arrests, 134 people placed in custody, 26 officers injured, an Interior Ministry count of roughly 500,000 participants, and 80,000 police and gendarmes deployed; senator Bruno Retailleau also cited 7,300 radicalised individuals in the marches.