New photo Up to 8,000 police bolster streets of Paris as Yellow Vest protesters plan more chaos

Around 8,000 police officers have been deployed in Paris ahead of a fifth consecutive week of demonstrations by the 'yellow vest' protesters.

Forty-six protesters have been arrested so far as the 'Act V' Day of Rage by gilets jaunes protesters gets underway. 

Scenes are particularly tense around the Paris Opera, where a large, mobile crowd is chanting for President Emmanuel Macron to resign.

French authorities have for weeks on end made repeated calls for calm after hundreds of thousands of campaigners torched cars, destroyed shops and vandalised the streets. 

Security forces in riot gear were positioned around central railway stations and along the famous Champs-Elysees boulevard, where shops were closed and boarded up in anticipation of the protests.

Yellow vest protesters take to the streets of Paris this morning for a fifth consecutive week of protests against the government

A masked protester carrying a Star Wars Lightsaber raises his arms as he walks with hundreds of protesters in Paris this morning

Female campaigners wave the French flag as they march down the Champs-Elysees avenue this morning

Protesters wrap themselves in French flags and lay on the ground in front of the Paris Opera in the French capital this morning

Last Saturday they were closed as thousands of sometimes violent protesters tore through the city. 

The previous weekend the Arc de Triomphe was vandalised, cars were overturned and torched and businesses smashed up.

The protests have taken a toll on the economy, with output in the last quarter of the year set to be half initial projections, while Macron's concessions are likely to push the budget deficit above an EU agreed limit.

A unit of mounted police officers stand guard in front of the Opera during the Yellow Vest demonstration today

A French police officer holds a rubber bullet weapon as she patrols in the centre of Paris with guards clutching riot gear and shields

Around 8,000 police officers have been deployed in Paris ahead of a fifth consecutive week of demonstrations today

The armed officers patrol in front of Gendarmerie with armoured vehicles parked on the Champs Elysees,

The yellow vest movement, which began as a protest against fuel taxes and then grew into an anti-Macron alliance, appears to have calmed since the president announced a series of measures to help the working poor.

There was a strong police presence outside the central Saint Lazare station today, where police in riot gear checked bags for helmets and other potential signs of trouble.

More than 20 police vans and a water cannon truck were nearby. On Friday, President Emmanuel Macron called for calm during the demonstrations and said.  

Police chief Michel Delpuech told RTL radio: 'We need to be prepared for worst-case scenarios.'

A man dressed as a King punches the sky as he stands in front of the Paris Opera where hundreds of protesters in high-vis vests congregate 

He expected businesses in the capital to be less affected this weekend after heavy disruption over the past three weeks when major stores shut, hotels suffered cancellations and tourists stayed away during the usually busy run-up to Christmas.

Nicknamed 'Acte V' of the protests, the yellow vest demonstrators will take to the streets this weekend as France recovers from an unrelated attack on a Christmas market in the eastern city of Strasbourg on Tuesday, when a gunman shot and killed three people and wounded several others.

Hundreds of police officers were redeployed to Strasbourg to search for the gunman, who was shot dead in an exchange of fire on Thursday evening.

Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said it was time for the yellow vests to scale down their protests and accept they had achieved their aims. Police officers also deserved a break, he added.

'I'd rather have the police force doing their real job, chasing criminals and combating the terrorism threat, instead of securing roundabouts where a few thousand people keep a lot of police busy,' he said.

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