MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 28th March, 2019) French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said on Wednesday that he had instructed the police to ban the yellow vest protests on the Champs-Elysees avenue, located in the heart of the French capital, for the second consecutive weekend.
Last Saturday the yellow vest protests were banned on Paris' main avenue. Demonstrators marched instead from Denfert Rochereau area in southern Paris to tourist hotspot Montmartre.
"The request for a demonstration on the Champs-Elysees next Saturday [March 30] is an incitement to further violence. I gave the [Paris] police chief very specific instructions to ban [the rally]," Castaner wrote on Twitter.
The decision to banish yellow vests from the Champs-Elysees came after the violent rallies, which resulted in dozens of injuries, plunged the French capital into chaos. The French government has replaced the head of Paris police in connection with the events.
The yellow vest movement began in mid-November in response to the government's plan to increase fuel tax. The authorities gave up on the plan, but the protests continued.
According to the French Interior Ministry, almost 4,000 people had been injured in protests since the beginning of the movement.
