We and our partners do the following data processing based on your consent: store and/or access information on a device, personalised advertising and content, advertising and content measurement, audience research and services development Live: France braces for Halloween protests, government vows tough response File photo of protesters dressed as Spider-Man taken at a protest against rising living costs in Rennes, France, October 24, 2026. © Jeremias Gonzalez, AP France on Saturday braced for a third weekend of protests coinciding with Halloween, with authorities alert to the possibility that rioters could use festive masks to conceal their identities. Around 70,000 security personnel have been deployed to prevent a repeat of street violence that erupted two weeks ago. Follow our live blog for all the latest updates.
Ahead of today's protests, some shops and other businesses across France boarded up their storefronts. Alain Di Crescenzo, president of France's chamber of commerce, said business owners were worried. "Shopkeepers can't wait for Saturday to be over," Di Crescenzo told broadcaster France Inter.
"The information we have is that Halloween is not helping matters, because we're going to have people wearing masks." Ahead of the protests, some shops and other businesses across France boarded up their storefronts. "Behind these boards, there is neither power nor an enemy. Just a family and its work," read a message scrawled in black across the plywood protecting a Paris business.
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