France security deployment for Saturday mobilization, Digi Mart USA News (France): Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez announced on Friday that the security arrangement used for previous Saturdays will be renewed for this weekend. He said 70,000 police officers and gendarmes will be mobilized across the country.
The deployment covers a new social mobilization called for Saturday by trade unions, youth organizations and the gilets jaunes movement. Nuñez described the arrangement as “reconduit,” meaning it is being carried over unchanged from earlier weekends.
Speaking at a press conference in Paris, the minister said “the risk is exactly the same as for previous Saturdays.” He cited calls on social media for “violence,” “blockades,” and “revolution, insurrection” by radical ultra-left or far-left movements.
