France: Government Falls. 80,000 Police Officers and Gendarmes Deployed
Featured image: map with all the spots were are planned actions on September 10. Source: Bloquons Tout!’s X account.
Prime Minister François Bayrou’s government fell on Monday night after deputies rejected his vote of confidence motion by 364 votes to 194. Bayrou lasted less than one year in office. French protesters already welcomed the fall of François Bayrou with large mobilizations, specially in Lyon, but also in other places such as St. Denis:
The movement for September 10 has already clarified that the fall of the government is not the end, but the beginning:
The Interior Minister, Bruno Retailleau took measures before the fall of the government: the deployment of 80,000 gendarmes and police officers for September 10. He also issued a clear threat, “no violence will be tolerated”. Columns of police vehicles have been already seen in Paris:
Despite this huge deployment, the General Direction of the Civil Aviation foresee that all the French airports will be disrupted:
Many actions are already taking place in many points of France and activists have announced that actions are expected in more than 700 parts of France. The Fédération Syndicale Étudiante (FSE) has recently issued a poster, joining the call for mobilization for September 10:
