In Paris, the extra security effort is clear. Policemen walk in groups of three or four with weapons visible. People on the streets shout different variations of “voter”, a call to vote, according to TT’s dispatcher.
A steady flow of voters flows to and from the polling station in central Paris.
Voter Nicolas, who does not want to give his last name, believes there will be a strike if the far-right National Assembly (RN), led by Marine Le Pen, becomes the largest party.
We will not be able to take the subway or the train. RN’s opponents will do everything to show their displeasure, he says.
According to French newspapers, several shops in the inner city have installed wooden boards to protect their shop windows for fear of riots when the election results are announced on Sunday night.
— I hope that hate does not win. They will set fire to everything if the RN wins, says a man in his 60s outside a polling station in the capital’s ninth district.