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France mobilises 70,000 police for Halloween protests amid 'very high risk' of disorder
October 30, 2026 at 09:26 AM
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AJAl Jazeera English
France braces for ‘very high risk’ of disorder at Halloween protests
(opens the publisher’s site)France has deployed 70,000 officers ahead of Saturday's Halloween protests, with Interior Minister Laurent Nunez warning of a very high risk of public disorder.
- Interior Minister Laurent Nunez announced the deployment of 70,000 police and gendarmes for the October 31 protests, matching numbers deployed a week earlier.
- Nunez banned gatherings from 8pm Saturday and protests in city centres, saying demonstrations promoted on social media as a "revolution" would be prohibited.
- Nunez warned protesters against using Halloween masks to hide their faces and pledged an "extremely firm" response to violence.
- President Emmanuel Macron said nothing justified the injuries to a 15-year-old protester who lost a hand and called for calm.