Crisis meetings are multiplying at the highest level of the state this Thursday, two days ahead of a feared "Act II" of the social mobilisation, after the violence and looting committed on the margins of demonstrations against the high cost of living last weekend in France.
With several city centres under curfew for the third night in a row and new gatherings already banned today, Emmanuel Macron is this morning chairing a security council bringing together the prime minister, the relevant ministers and "all the intelligence services".
