⌨Overnight the Conseil d'Etat overturned the tribunal, restoring the Bagnolet-Charenton route and banning Bastille-Nation; the CGT denounced disorganization but urged respect. From midday provincial marches departed before the Paris cortege left at 14h with 40 metro stations closed and many costumed demonstrators. The ministry reported globally calm with 27 arrests by 14h as student unions called for blockades next week. By evening authorities counted 320,000 nationwide, 70,000 in Paris, against nearly 500,000 claimed by unions. Dispersals turned tense in Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse and Nantes. Minister Nunez praised the marches, denounced ultra-left looters' extreme violence with over 500 arrests, warning the Halloween night was not over amid curfews.
Away from protests, the Trappes mayor received a racist letter with white powder, the Swiss plant making French police LBDs burned in suspected arson, and four bodies were found after the Clermont-Ferrand building fire.