France prepared on Saturday for a third consecutive weekend of protests over living costs and education, deploying 70,000 police and gendarmes and pushing the Paris march to the capital's edge as youth-led demonstrations spread across Europe. Interior Minister Laurent Nunez warned of a "very high risk" of disorder, especially after dark on Halloween, per the AP. Paris police banned union and yellow-vest marches through the city center on Friday, ordering demonstrations to follow a single route along the capital's outer boulevards. Unions and student groups challenged the restrictions in court.
President Emmanuel Macron said Monday marches would stay out of city centers to protect shops. Police also barred entry to the Place de la Republique and Les Halles, both hit by rioting and looting on Oct. 17, from 11pm to 6am on Saturday and Sunday nights. Unaccompanied minors face a separate 9pm curfew around the Champs-Elysees. Authorities counted about 550,000 marchers on Oct. 17, when rioters looted hundreds of shops, and 410,000 last Saturday, when protests were largely peaceful but police made more than 1,300 arrests.
In Germany, meanwhile, a youth initiative called "Gen Z regelt"— roughly, "Gen Z's got this"—urged protests in some 30 cities "for education, health, climate protection, and an affordable life," and against any return of military conscription. Organizers said more than 140,000 people signed up online. In Barcelona, Spain, police planned their highest-level alert after an anonymous TikTok network called Blocus urged new gatherings. Italian police were on alert after clashes in Milan, Turin, and Bologna, and calls to protest circulated on TikTok in Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, and Portugal.
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