Key takeaways by Insider Paper
- Temporary ban across greater Paris on carrying petrol or gas cans, bottles, and possessing fireworks through Thursday after weekend riots.
- Ban forbidding wearing protective gear, such as helmets, within one block of high schools or universities.
- Government vows a massive security deployment for Saturday protests after clashes between police and masked youths during prior demonstrations.
Paris police on Tuesday ordered a temporary ban on people carrying cans or bottles of petrol or gas, or possessing fireworks, following weekend riots in the capital and elsewhere in France.
The measures, which apply up to and including Thursday and cover the greater Paris region, came as France’s government vowed a “massive” security deployment for fresh protests that have been called for Saturday.
Another ban was also ordered forbidding the wearing of protective gear, such as helmets, within a block of high schools or universities.
Clashes have broken out between police and masked youths, some of whom wore helmets, protective goggles, gloves and gas masks, both last weekend and occasionally during four weeks of student protests before that.
