The French Ministry of the Interior has announced the mobilization of approximately seventy thousand police officers and gendarmes across the entire national territory ahead of the demonstrations scheduled for Saturday, October 31. As reported by the broadcaster France 24, Minister Laurent Nuñez pointed to a very high level of risk to public order, ensuring an extremely firm response against any possible excesses or acts of vandalism during the gatherings.

The government plan includes a strict ban on holding marches in the most exposed urban centers and a halt to specific evening gatherings promoted via social networks for Halloween night. These measures follow the heavy incidents and looting recorded on October 17, arising from discontent linked to the rising cost of living and earlier mobilizations called by the yellow vests movement.

At the same time, tensions remain open with the student community, which has been protesting for weeks demanding better studying conditions and structural interventions for schools. Despite recent government proposals, which include the revision of the university admissions platform and loans for school renovations, unions have expressed strong dissatisfaction, deeming the institutional responses entirely inadequate to the demands made in the streets.

A meeting between the minister and youth delegations ended without any positive agreement. Manon Moret, general secretary of the Unef union, and Louis Letoublon of the association Les Lycéens! strongly challenged the conduct of law enforcement and the lack of acknowledgment of the violence suffered by demonstrators, as the country approaches the electoral atmosphere of the presidential election.