FRANCE LATEST:  YELLOW VESTS PROTEST PLANS TOMORROW IN ACT 9 MET WITH GOVERNMENT CONTROLS

After plans were laid for a Yellow Vests protest in Bourges, France, a city of some 66-thousand about a 150 miles from Paris, the prefect of the area called Cher has announced a protest ban for tomorrow.

Catherine Ferrier told BFM-TV this morning that she is signing a decree to ban demonstrations in the historic city center and will only allow protest on the periphery of the city.

Metro stations are being closed in Paris and an exclusion perimeter including parts of the Champs-Elysees, the Palace de la Concorde, the Elysee Palace and the Ministry of the Interior is established as of 6am local time tomorrow, 12 Midnight Eastern US time.

The police will carry out identity checks and searches around the city of Paris with planned closures of metro stations for tomorrow and limitations of bus lines in the city as well.

80-thousand police will be deployed nationwide with 5-thousand mobilized in Paris.

Besides Bourges and Paris, eight other cities at least will be the sites of Yellow Vests protests tomorrow.

Bordeaux

Marseille

Toulouse

Lyon

Strasbourg

Lille

Nantes

Rennes


Four protests are set for Paris tomorrow but police are wondering if they are receiving decoy announcements of protest.

Online members of France's Gypsy community are being mobilized to protest over the arrest of boxer Christophe Dettinger for punching police last Saturday in Paris.

Dettinger is a Gypsy.

Another aspect of the protest is  a call for withdrawal of money from banks today, Friday

(MORE LATER TONIGHT AFTER MIDNIGHT EASTERN TIME)