The police headquarters issued an order on Monday banning the demonstration planned for Tuesday by Interfac Île-de-France in the center of Paris. The collective rejected the alternative route proposed on the outskirts of the capital and plans to file an appeal before the administrative court.

Published on: 02/11/2026 - 19:30Modified on: 02/11/2026 - 19:32

The police headquarters issued an order on Monday to ban the demonstration planned for Tuesday by Interfac Île-de-France in the heart of Paris, the collective told AFP, which refuses the alternative route proposed on the outskirts and intends to take the matter to the administrative court.

“They say that the route in the center of Paris is prohibited,” Coppélia Moreau, one of its members, denounced to AFP.

Read alsoHigh schools blocked in several cities at the dawn of a week of mobilization

Interfac IDF, which presents itself as the general assembly of students from Ile-de-France faculties, has declared a route going from the Panthéon, in the 5th arrondissement, to the headquarters of Medef, in the 7th arrondissement.

A route "incompatible with the security constraints in force" put in place "in an extremely tense social context", justifies the prefecture in its decree, while emphasizing that the Place du Panthéon "is "a major tourist site which generates a very large number of visitors".

The prefecture offers a route on the outskirts, between the gates of Charenton and Montreuil.

“We do not accept this route,” Coppélia Moreau told AFP, denouncing “a generalized ban on demonstrations in Paris.”

The collective intends to file an appeal before the administrative court, she assured. “We don’t see why the judges wouldn’t agree with us, as they did on October 22.”

Also read: Right to demonstrate in France: “It is not up to the president to choose his opponents”

That day, administrative justice had urgently suspended the order of the Paris police headquarters banning a demonstration organized the same day by Interfac Île-de-France between Pitié-Salpétrière and Bastille.

But failing to have received the court's motivation, the police prefect, considering that "the security conditions" were "not met to allow this wandering", decided on a "static" gathering.

With AFP

Keywords associated with the article

The content you are trying to access does not exist or is no longer available.