France mobilizes 70,000 personnel to secure high cost of living protests

Al-Taj News – The French government announced on Friday that it will deploy about 70,000 police and gendarmerie personnel across the country on Saturday, coinciding with protests over the high cost of living.

Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez expected between 50 and 60 marches to be organized, after weeks of demonstrations and 6 months before the presidential elections.

Nuñez told the “LCI” channel that the authorities will adopt “the same security measures that were taken last Saturday”.