PARIS (AP) – France prepared Saturday for a third consecutive weekend of protests over living costs and education, deploying 70,000 police and gendarmes and rerouting the Paris march to the capital’s edge as youth-led demonstrations spread across Europe.
\n\nInterior Minister Laurent Nuñez warned of a “very high risk” of disorder, especially after dark on Halloween.
\n\nParis police banned union and “yellow vest” marches through the city center, ordering demonstrations to follow a single route along the capital´s outer boulevards, from Porte de Bagnolet to Porte de Charenton. Unions and student groups challenged the restrictions in court, but lost in a last-minute legal battle.
\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron said Monday that marches would stay out of city centers to protect shops.
\n\nPolice also barred entry to Place de la Republique and Les Halles, both hit by rioting and looting on Oct. 17, from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. Saturday and Sunday.
\n\nUnaccompanied minors face a separate 9 p.m. curfew around the Champs-Elysees. A Paris court on Wednesday suspended an earlier curfew on minors as a serious and illegal infringement of freedom of movement.
\n\nThe movement began with high school students protesting school conditions and broadened into anger over living costs.
\n\nAuthorities counted…
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