demonstrations are prohibited in a large area around the Champs-Elysées

Ban on demonstrations around the Champs-Elysées during the commemoration, Monday, of the armistice of May 8, 1945. The police headquarters published two decrees on Friday which establish a very large perimeter around the main avenue, inside which any manifestation “protest” is prohibited, as are gatherings “undeclared”. The orders list the penalties incurred in the event of violations of these orders.

These bans are motivated by the fact that this commemoration, which brings together around President Emmanuel Macron members of the government and political figures, is “capable of constituting”In “the current context of very high threat, a privileged and symbolic target for acts of a terrorist nature”.

Emmanuel Macron will rekindle the flame of the tomb of the unknown soldier

President Emmanuel Macron must go up the avenue des Champs-Elysées in a vehicle framed by Republican guards on horseback, to the Arc de Triomphe where he will rekindle the flame of the tomb of the unknown soldier.

Since the adoption of the law on the controversial reform of pensions by recourse to article 49.3 of the Constitution, which allows the adoption of a text without a vote of the parliamentarians, the president and the members of the government are the object demonstrations and “casserolades” each time they go out.