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12:25 11.11.2026 •
Emmanuel Macron has a secret bunker outside Paris where he will flee if the Élysée Palace is stormed by rioters, The Telegraph writes.
The hideout in the Paris suburbs was revealed in La Nouvelle Armée des Ombres (The New Army of Shadows), a new book by Pierre Gastineau, Antoine Izambard and Franck Renaud, all investigative journalists.
In recent weeks, France has been gripped by violent unrest, while spy chiefs are reportedly preparing for riots, sabotage, cyber attacks and even the deployment of special forces against an armed uprising in the 2027 presidential election.
The bunker preparations were partly prompted by the Yellow Vest uprising of 2018, when Mr Macron came under attack by furious protesters during a visit to Le Puy-en-Velay, according to extracts published in L’Express.
“The government trembled,” one author recalled on France Inter on Friday.
The authorities began considering presidential evacuation plans and invoking the violent riots of February 1934, which brought down a French government.
According to the authors, officials fear that a victory by Marine Le Pen’s populist-Right National Rally could provoke a “third round” in the streets by radical-Left activists, suburban youths and rural militants who refuse to accept the election result.
Conversely, a victory by Jean-Luc Mélenchon – the hard-Left France Unbowed candidate who, according to current polls, would reach the presidential run-off – could trigger “passive resistance” within the police.
After speaking to various high-level sources, the authors said Patrice Faure, the head of the Paris police, has held repeated meetings to prepare for an insurrection.
The Directorate General for External Security, France’s foreign intelligence agency, has simulated electoral interference, while police in the French capital have rehearsed operating for an entire day without encrypted smartphones in case of a crippling cyber attack.
One senior spy had warned the authors as early as April that France was heading towards a major revolt, citing rising fuel prices and anger simmering since the Yellow Vest protests.
Nevertheless, intelligence officers badly underestimated the Oct 17 demonstrations, predicting between 60,000 and 150,000 protesters when more than 500,000 turned out.
Meanwhile, French special forces have examined deploying troops to protect parliament in an armed uprising, say the authors.
But one former special-forces commander warned against deploying soldiers on French streets.
His greatest fear was “that the Prince might develop a taste for it”.
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