Paris: Protest starts at Porte d'Italie, after last-minute change to the route

Our reporter Elitza Gadeva is covering that for us in Paris. Elitza, hello to you. Now, you're at Porte d'Italie right now. Talk us through what's happening there at the moment. That's right. Well, Porte d'Italie is buzzing. There are so many people here and they will start marching now because the route starts at 2 p.m. from Porte d'Italie to Porte de Vincennes. And there are many people, students, parents, union representatives and people from the whole Paris, even from all across France, who told me that they came here today specifically to participate in this protest that they said is very important. They said that they are trying to defend their basic democratic rights and the right to protest because the protest was moved from Bastille to here only today, which caused some confusion to many of the protesters. Let's say you are covering the protests for us at Bastille earlier. Is there a reason why you moved location? Well, yesterday the police tried to ban this route from Bastille to Nation, but union representatives contested this decision. So it was in the hands of the Paris tribunal, and today it was decided that this protest there will be banned. So many people were actually gathering there, and they had to move here to participate in that new protest and I spoke to one girl who was fined because she simply didn't know that the protest was moved so she went there and they told her well no it's illegal to protest here so she was fined 90 euros. All right Elitza thank you very much indeed for now that's Elitza for us at Porte d'Italie in Paris.