WorldLive: France braces for Halloween protests as government vows tough response

France prepared on Saturday for a third consecutive weekend of protests, coinciding with Halloween. Authorities were concerned that rioters might use festive masks to hide their identities, and deployed about 70,000 security personnel to prevent a recurrence of street violence seen two weeks earlier.

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