France to ban participation in unauthorised protests: Edouard Philippe

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has announced plans to punish people who hold unsanctioned protests after seven weeks of anti-government unrest. He also announced plans to ban known troublemakers from taking part in demonstrations, in the same way known football hooligans in the past had been banned from



stadiums.

Philippe said, his government wants to draft new legislation that will ban troublemakers from protests and clamp down on the wearing of masks at demonstrations. People across France protested against fuel tax in November last year in which at least six people died and over 1400 injured.