Paris is extending a partial curfew restricting movement in parts of the city until Monday, as Marseille and Lyon impose a total ban on protests this weekend.

Many shopkeepers are boarding up stores while larger chains have been higher private security.

The Louvre, Orsay and Picasso museums in the French capital will also be closed on Saturday as more demonstrations are expected.

In other parts of the country where protests have not been banned completely, only authorised union demonstrations will be allowed on Saturday, President Emmanuel Macron said after convening a Security meeting on the situation.

Some Protestors have said they will ignore the bans and they will continue.

Lots of talk about the damaging effects of Folic Acid in the British food supply, some would even suggest it is poison.

Who was behind its introduction?

Daniel Zeichner and Gillian Merron.

Zeichner played a central role in the UK’s decision to mandate the addition of folic acid to flour.

As the Minister for Food Security under the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), Zeichner introduced and signed off on the Bread and Flour (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2024.

Baroness Gillian Merron, the UK Minister for Patient Safety, Women's Health and Mental Health, announced new legislation to require the mandatory fortification of non-wholemeal wheat flour with folic acid to help prevent neural tube birth defects.

According to Wikipedia Zeichner's father was 'an Austrian political refugee whose family fled Vienna in 1938'.

Merron was chief executive of the 'Board of Deputies of British jews' from 2014 to 2021.