French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that the local authorities will ban all demonstrations planned for the coming days, except for those organized by trade unions. "If we are talking about trade union organizations, the prefects will offer alternative routes. And if they are not organized by trade unions, we will ban them everywhere," Macron said after the meeting with members of the government regarding the upcoming actions. The President's speech was broadcast on page X of the Elysée Palace. According to the French leader, "now is not the time for protests." "All of us should calm down," he said. He blamed extreme leftist groups for the riots that took place on October 17. "Their goal is to destroy the republic," Macron emphasized. On October 17, mass demonstrations were held in Paris and throughout France against the increase in fuel prices and the decline in the purchasing power of the population. According to the organizers' calculations, around 800 thousand people took part in the actions, while according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 550 thousand people took part in the actions, which twice exceeded the forecasts of the analysts of the power structures. In a number of cities, protests escalated into riots and clashes with the police. The Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nunes, promised that the authorities will continue to prosecute all the participants of massacres and looting.