France will deploy the Sentinelle force onto its streets to maintain order as protests escalate, mainly for static security missions, freeing police and gendarmes for law enforcement. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said a “massive” security operation will take place next weekend and new curfews may be imposed where needed. The protests, which began in mid-September over anger at the education system, have grown into an intergenerational movement; the Interior Ministry said over half a million joined on Saturday, 1,200 people were arrested and 150 police officers injured, and shops were looted and a 140-year-old town hall in Limoges was largely destroyed by fire. Inflation hit 3.4% in September, and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman said France is on a “fiscally unsustainable path,” with the deficit expected at 5.1% of GDP and rising to 5.7% in 2027.
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