Organisers called for fresh rallies and a sit-in outside parliament and city halls nationwide, condemning the "authoritarian drift" of President Emmanuel Macron and urging citizens to stand up for "public freedoms".
Another day of nationwide protests began in France on Saturday under tight security, a week after riots and looting erupted on the sidelines of massive cost-of-living demonstrations.
Members of the largely rural based Yellow Vest movement were angered and refused to comply when Paris police ordered a late change to the authorised route for a union-organised march Saturday, shifting it to the edge of the capital.
Next Saturday, "we will protest for the freedom to protest, and for all our freedoms," a Yellow Vest coordinator told journalists at Paris's Bastille square, the original departure point for the march.
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