“Due to the serious risk of public order and security disruption (…) all demonstrations on public roads in Concordia Square and its surroundings, as well as in the Champs Elysées area, are prohibited,” the town hall told AFP.
“People who try to rally are systematically demobilized by law enforcement” and could be fined, the same source added.
These places are close to the National Assembly and the presidential palace of the Élysée.
The pension reform challenge decided upon by French President Emmanuel Macron took on more radical contours, with young activists tired of weekly processions and ready to step up the fight, following the government’s decision on Thursday to to approve text.
On Friday, as the day before, thousands of people gathered on the Place de la Concorde.
A bonfire was lit and the atmosphere grew tense as night fell, as police charged into the crowd, according to AFP journalists.
Several hundred people confronted the police with bottles and rockets, to which the latter responded with tear gas as they evacuated the square in the pouring rain.
According to the police command, 61 people were questioned.
The day before, 10,000 protesters gathered at the site and 258 people were arrested.
The French government on Thursday decided to approve the pension reform, taking advantage of Article 49.3 of the Constitution, which allows the adoption of a text without a vote unless a motion of censure is voted on the executive.
The measure provides for an increase in the retirement age from 62 to 64 years.
Source: DN
