EMMANUEL Macron has a secret bunker outside Paris where he will flee if violent mobs storm the Élysée Palace, a book has claimed.
The revelation comes as , with masked protesters looting shops, setting fires and clashing with armed police.
Macron’s hideout in the capital’s suburbs was revealed in La Nouvelle Armée des Ombres (The New Army of Shadows), a book by investigative journalists Pierre Gastineau, Antoine Izambard and Franck Renaud.
They say that the bunker preparations were partly sparked by the 2018 Yellow Vest uprising, when the French president was attacked during a visit to Le Puy-en-Velay.
“The government trembled” amid the unrest, one author told Inter on Friday.
Macron’s spooks began plotting presidential evacuation plans and invoked the violent riots which brought down the government in 1934, according to extracts published in L’Express.
Officials fear that radical left-wing militants could spark a “third round” of disorder should ‘s National Rally win the election next April, according to the authors.
Paris chief Patrice Faure has held several meetings to prepare for a rebellion, various high-level sources told the authors.
Meanwhile, France’s foreign intelligence agency has simulated electoral interference, while police in the French capital have rehearsed for an entire day without smartphones in the event of a crippling cyber attack.
One senior spy warned that France was on the brink of an insurrection as early as April, pointing to rising fuel costs and simmering public fury.
However intelligence chiefs badly underestimated the chaos that would unfold on October 17, predicting only between 60,000 and 150,000 protesters, when in fact half a million took the streets.
France continues to deal with aftershocks from that uprising, with more than 600,000 people turning out nationwide on Thursday.
The Eiffel Tower was locked down as chaos erupted across the country and 80,000 protesters marched through Paris’ historic boulevards.
The iconic monument shuttered its gates as the capital braced for the pre-planned, nationwide strikes led by the Left-wing CGT and backed by fiery student groups.
Massive blazes lit up the streets of the capital as angry students carrying banners reading “inequalities seriously jeopardise our future” marched alongside striking workers and pensioners.
Major marches were also seen in in Lyon and Marseilles where special forces squads were also deployed in precaution although much of the action was peaceful.
France mobilised 70,000 cops as activists planned to bring the country to a standstill.
Police vowed an “extremely firm response” towards any “outbreaks” for the more than 250 protests which were planned for the day.
About a third a France’s high were closed or unable to operate on as some students set up blockades and teachers went on strike.
Earlier in the day, hooded and masked thugs set Françoise high school in Tournefeuille alight after they let off fireworks at the premise.
The school was locked down after the horrific blaze which witnesses described as an act of “guerrilla warfare”.
A teacher at the school told local media outlet La Dépêche: “They came to destroy everything.
“What unfolded this morning was in no way a blockade, nor even a student protest.
“These were not students who had come to voice their demands – they were individuals who had come to terrorize, ransack, and set fires. And they succeeded.”
