Paris: Last-minute change to the protest route

Let's cross now to our reporter in Paris, Elitza Gadeva. She's standing by at Bastille, where today's march was supposed to begin, but authorities changed the location just a few hours ago. So, Elitza, we understand people, though, are still showing up at Bastille. So, what's happening where you are? That's right. Well, the protest between Bastille and Nation was forbidden. We learned that because policemen started to tell people and ask for their identity cards, even find them. And like yesterday, the police prefecture tried to forbid it, but we were waiting for that confirmation from the Paris tribunal that we just got. So now protesting here is illegal. The protest is therefore moved from Port d'Italie to Port de Vincennes. but people here are confused and quite angry because well they first started showing up they didn't know that the location was actually moved because this happened really last minute yesterday and then i spoke to a girl rachel who said that the policeman simply asked for her id she thought that it was a regular id check and then they gave her a fine of 90 euros and it's 90 euros if you can pay right now but it's actually 135 and she couldn't pay so she will have to pay that amount later and people are saying that it's simply not fair they didn't know and they didn't even have the time or just you know they didn't tell them well you can go now and move location they were directly fined so uh elisa um what else are the police saying are they just telling people to move on or or they're going to continue to write fines for the day well yeah they're saying that if people don't move from here from bastille they will be fined and they're saying that a new protest well not new but another protest route is authorized between port d'italy and port de bastille and that will start at around 2 p.m so we saw many of those people who were gathering here starting to go towards the metro and some of them told me that they will be going there and protesting in that eastern part of paris but others told me that well they need to work today and they don't have the time to move locations all day so they will have to skip this second protest elisa thank you very much for keeping us updated of course we'll be checking back in with you throughout the day that's elisa gadiva over there near bestie in Paris now