FRANCE has mobilised 70,000 cops as the nation braces for another wave of fierce riots tonight.
Police have vowed an “extremely firm response” towards any “outbreaks” as hundreds of protests prepare to take to the streets today.
Apocalyptic unrest has swept across the nation in recent weeks igniting with some of the worst riots France has seen in years .
Last night Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said “it is exactly the same” system “as that of October 31”.
On Halloween, 70,000 cops were deployed as a third consecutive weekend of protests over living costs and education swept the nation.
But the demonstrations spiralled into a real-life night of horror with cops firebombed and cars torched with Molotov cocktails .
Authorities have blamed the “ultra left” for fuelling the riots, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Today special forces squads including RAID and BRI will also be deployed to counter any unrest.
Announced in early October, nationwide strike action will sweep across France with more than 250 protests announced.
Authorities expect 500,000 to 700,000 people outside Paris and 40,000 to 80,000 in the capital.
Unions have organised private and public sector employees as well as high school and university students who have been mobilized for weeks.
The government is “extremely vigilant”, its spokesperson Maud Bregeon told Le Parisien.
“There is no question of us reliving, in any way whatsoever what we went through on October 17”, he added.
At least 3,000 businesses were ransacked and more than 2,400 people were arrested after the weekend of riots in October.
Rallies, which grew from high school protests against teacher shortages and shabby facilities, morphed into violent clashes with cops.
Overnight lockdowns were enforced across Paris, Nice, Lyon and Lille, as politicians desperately tried to curb looting and arson .
Minister Nuñez later admitted police “lost control” in some cities, with President Emmanuel Macron calling or a security review.
Authorities say the riots are being incited by a collection of radical activists with a range of causes, united by a willingness to use violence against the state.
Last month police stormed the home of Hodei Ciarra Docampo, 34, and arrested the environmental activist.
Authorities branded Docampo “dangerous” and identified him as part of the ultra left fanning the flames of the escalating unrest.
He was suspected of helping set a fire that ripped through the neo-Renaissance city hall of Limoges.
Docampo has been charged with attempted murder of a public official – a crime punishable by life in prison.
Officials said videos taken at the scene show Docampo feeding a fire in the city hall by throwing a trash can inside.
“These are people who live in their own world, whom you can’t approach,” Pascal Godrie, mayor of Val d’Issoire told the Wall Street Journal.
A court will decide on Thursday whether he should be freed or held in custody pending trial.
