No sound of pan should resonate during the commemoration, Monday, of the armistice of May 8, 1945. To prevent any act hostile to the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, in Paris, the Prefecture of police has prohibited demonstrations in a large perimeter around the Champs-Elysées.
The two decrees, published on the evening of Friday May 5, are motivated by the fact that this commemoration, which brings together members of the government and political figures around the Head of State, is “capable of constituting”In “the current context of very high threat, a privileged and symbolic target for acts of a terrorist nature”.
They set up a very wide perimeter around the Champs-Elysées, within which all events “demands” are prohibited, as are gatherings “undeclared”. The orders list the penalties incurred in the event of violations of these orders.
“Cassesolades” at each exit of the Head of State
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 pension reform by recourse to article 49.3 of the Constitution, which allows the validation of a text without a vote of the parliamentarians, the President of the Republic and the members of the government are l object of demonstrations and “casserolades” at each of their exit.