PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron has signed into law legislation giving security forces greater powers at demonstrations that opponents claim violates civil liberties, the official journal said Thursday .
It would have given the authorities the power to ban from demonstrations any individual"posing a particularly serious threat to public order".That article was accompanied by a file of named of people wanted by the police, which critics strongly denounced as violating citizens' freedom of assembly as protected in the constitution.
It also approved making it a criminal offence to conceal the face at a demonstration, punishable by a year in prison and 15,000 euros in fines. The yellow vest protests against social inequality have proved the biggest challenge to Macron since he came to power, taking much of the momentum out of his reformist agenda.
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