Incidents in another march of the "yellow vests" in Paris: the police arrested more than 120 demonstrators and does not allow the passage by Notre-Dame

Security forces are on alert in Paris and other French cities before a new Saturday of protests.yellow vests", the 23rd since the emergence of the movement in mid-November. Police arrested 126 protesters until here and there were 11,062 "preventive controls", reported the force.

French newspapers quoted a note from the prefect of the Paris police, Didier Lallement, speaking of the possibility that "a radical block of 1500 to 2000 people, composed of "ultra-yellow""Sow chaos in Paris.

The "The vandals met again tomorrow (for today) in some French cities, Toulouse, Montpellier, Bordeaux and especially Paris, "said Friday the French Minister of the Interior. Christophe Castaner, announcing the mobilization of 60,000 police and gendarmes.

Anyway, a police chief has tempered the forecast. According to him, this twenty-third Saturday of protests, presented by "yellow vests" as will be the second "ultimatum"a little less strong"It's the first.

"We do not feel an effervescence similar to that of March 16, especially between the ultraleft", he added, estimating that they will reserve"forces for May 1st", the International Day of Workers.

On March 16, radical activists "black blocks" and "yellow vests" – which demand improved living conditions and direct democracy – joined the movement. a particularly confrontational and violent day in which many stores Champs-Elysees were looted, which cost the post to the police chief of Paris.

This Saturday there are plans four steps in pariswhose only two were allowed.

For this "act 23", the protesters gathered mainly in the capitalafter a week in which the head of state, Emmanuel Macron, had to reveal a major program of reforms to appease social discontent.

The announcement was however postponed due to the fire of Notre Dame Cathedral.

Access to the cathedral, to which groups of "yellow vests" have tried to reach, protesters were banned, as well as other emblematic places of Paris and its provinces: the big Parisian avenue of the Champs-Élysées, the center of Lyon (east) or the place of the Capitol of Toulouse (south-west).

"It is not reasonable to allow demonstrations of 5,000 to 10,000 people on the outskirts of Notre Dame.Didier Lallement said, brandishing the thousands of tourists or spectators who continue to come around the burned temple every day.

The national communion that sparked the catastrophe of Notre Dame has irritated some "yellow vests", especially the hundreds of millions of euros promised by the greatest fortunes of France for reconstruction.

Many of them have adopted the humorous tweet of a novelist, Ollivier Pourriol, published on the social network after the fire: "Victor Hugo thanks all the generous donors who wish to save Notre Dame de Paris and proposes to do the same with Les Misérables. ", title of another work of the French writer who expanded the legend of the cathedral.

Last Saturday, the demonstrations of "yellow vests" gathered 31,000 people, including 5,000 in Paris, according to official figures questioned by the protesters.