PARIS, June 26 (Reuters) – Paris police said on Friday asked the organizers of the Pride March that was scheduled for Saturday to call it off due to an exceptional heatwave that has stretched emergency services and hospitals in the French capital or else the police would outright ban it.
The march generally gathers tens of thousands of people to the city’s streets.
The police had issued the same request to a music festival called Solidays and an athletics meeting at Stade Charlety which were expected to draw tens of thousands of people too.
(Reporting by Hugo Lhomedet; Editing by Inti Landauro and Makini Brice)
