French president Emmanuel Macron is according to aides postponing a visit later this month to Nigeria and Senegal amid the crisis. (EPA Images pic)PARIS: France will deploy some 70,000 police nationwide as it braces for new protests this weekend after some of the worst urban violence in years erupted on the sidelines of demonstrations a week ago, the government said Friday.
President Emmanuel Macron, who according to aides is postponing a visit later this month to Nigeria and Senegal amid the crisis, held a meeting of his defence council of top ministers and officials and was to meet security forces.
He also met representatives of secondary school pupils for the first time, but they emerged from the talks urging students to keep protesting until the government put forward concrete proposals to address their demands.
