French authorities tighten restrictions and ban specific protests

Home France To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: Students chant slogans during a protest over rising housing costs and underfunded education, in solidarity with students in France and Spain, in Athens, Greece, October 21, 2026. REUTERS - Stelios Misinas 01:21 Issued on: 23/10/2026 - 15:55 France is bracing for another weekend of protests, after violence erupted on the sidelines of last week's mobilisations. Paris is extending a partial curfew in parts of the city until Monday, while protests are banned altogether in the cities of Marseille and Lyon. 70,000 security personnel will be deployed on Saturday and only union demonstrations will be authorised. Keywords for this article Video content Video Europe Video content Video France Video content Video Europe Video content Video France Video content Video France Video content Video France Video content Video Europe Video content Video France Video content Video Europe