Some 130,000 police officers and gendarmes will be deployed across France this Saturday and Sunday to ensure the smooth running of the July 14 festivities, two weeks before the opening of the Olympic Games, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced on Friday.
“To guarantee the security of the festivities, 130,000 police officers and gendarmes will be mobilized this weekend, including 11,000 in Paris,” he wrote on X. “Faced with the irresponsible people who are trying to sow disorder, I call for respect for this moment of national cohesion,” he added, without specifying who he was targeting.
Demonstration Sunday evening
The Student Union and the High School Union, with the support of several deputies from La France Insoumise, have called for a demonstration on Sunday at 7 p.m. at Place de la Bastille in Paris, “for a New Popular Front government” and “against the presidential coup” after the early legislative elections.
Negotiations were stalling on Friday on the left to propose a name for Prime Minister, against a backdrop of disagreements between the Insoumis and the Socialists, while the presidential camp struggled to display its unity around Gabriel Attal, assured of taking the head of a renamed Renaissance group.