France recorded lower turnout on its third consecutive weekend of protests over living costs and schools, while officials counted 779 detentions across the mobilisation and Halloween night. That combined figure includes two separate tallies and is not a protest-only detention total.
The mobilisation on 31 October comprised 291 public actions nationwide, with an official participant count of 320,000. Paris accounted for 70,000 of those participants. The national turnout was lower than on each of the preceding two weekends, although the figures provided do not specify the size of either earlier mobilisation.
The protests continued a sequence of weekend demonstrations centred on living costs and schools. Clashes occurred in some places, but the available details do not establish how many of the 291 actions involved clashes or provide a location-by-location account of the mobilisation.
The detention figures require a distinction between the daytime mobilisation and the overnight response. Officials counted 565 detentions by 21:00 during the mobilisation. They then recorded another 214 during Halloween night, bringing the combined day-and-night total to 779.
Describing all 779 as protest detentions would therefore merge categories that officials recorded separately. The larger number covers both the mobilisation tally and the additional Halloween-night tally. The information provided does not establish that those detained during Halloween night were participants in the protests.
The same separation applies to injuries among security personnel. Officials recorded 116 security-force injuries during the mobilisation and a further 43 during Halloween. These are distinct figures for the two periods, rather than a single injury count attributed entirely to the demonstrations.
The official recap, dated 1 November, covers both the 31 October mobilisation and the overnight Halloween response. Its later cumulative detention figure consequently has a wider scope than the mobilisation count recorded by 21:00. Keeping those time periods explicit is important to understanding the numbers.
Paris was prominent in the participation figures, with 70,000 people included in the official national count of 320,000. The remaining participation was recorded elsewhere in France, but no further local breakdown is provided. The 291 public actions refer to the nationwide mobilisation, not solely to the capital.
The lower turnout marks a change from the preceding two weekends, while the mobilisation remained the third consecutive weekend of protests. There is no stated explanation for the fall in participation, and the figures alone do not establish why fewer people attended.
Official law-enforcement figures and protest-organiser estimates differ. No alternative participant total is specified here, so the 320,000 national figure and the 70,000 Paris figure should be understood as official counts, rather than numbers agreed by all parties.
The account of clashes in some places sits alongside the nationwide participation tally. It does not establish that clashes occurred throughout France or at every public action. Nor do the totals provide a detailed account of the circumstances behind individual detentions or security-force injuries.
The figures describe detentions, not convictions or findings of wrongdoing. No subsequent legal outcomes are specified. They also do not provide grounds for treating the Halloween-night detentions as part of the protest mobilisation simply because the two periods were included in one recap.
The overall picture is therefore of reduced official protest turnout alongside substantial detention totals across two separately recorded periods. For the mobilisation, the detention figure was 565 by 21:00; for Halloween night, it was an additional 214. Only their combined day-and-night count reaches 779.
