Posted on 12/29/2018 3:54:05 PM PST by Nextrush
"The president of the rich is drinking champagne in Saint-Tropez while tens and hundreds of thousands of French people scream in pain and misery and have been on the dams and roundabouts for several weeks"
Benjamin Cauchy of the Yellow Vests speaks to BFM-TV in France 12/29/2018
Sharp words regarding French President Emmanuel Macron who's surfaced on the French Riviera for a holiday getaway from a Yellow Vests spokesman today.
Benjamin Cauchy called Macron a "bling-bling" president who must speak to the "France of the poor".
He hopes for a miracle when Macron makes his traditional New Year's Eve speech that will mark a real and dramatic change in policy.
On the streets of Paris today some 800 Yellow Vests marched in several processions with 57 arrested and 33 detained. Yellow Vests appeared on the Champs-Elysees but they also put away their vests and put them back on again at Trocadero Square in front of the Eiffel Tower.
Other sites of protest included media building like those of France Television (government television) and BFM-TV. The media being accused in its reporting of colalborating with the government's agenda.
12-hundred Yellow Vests were on the streets in the eastern French city of Metz today with police using tear gas after paving stones and sewer grates, among other objects were thrown at them.
Some 1000 Yellow Vests in Rouen, France today with police using stun grenades and tear gas. The door of the Bank of France there was burned during the protest.
In northern France at Lille police fired tear gas at a procession of 500 to 600 Yellow Vests. Some injuries reported and six arrests.
900 protesters reported in Marseilles today and some 24-hundred in Bordeaux.
Meanwhile at least 59-thousand have expressed interest and 8-thousand plan to attend a "peaceful" and "festive" Yellow Vests protest in Paris on the Champs-Elysees New Year's Eve.
Other Yellow Vests protests are planned for Bordeaux and Nice on New Year's Eve.
The city is staging its usual light shows there and a security perimeter with searches of all those entering will be set up around the Champs-Elysees from 4pm New Year's Eve.
A pro-President Macron protest is being planned for January 27th in Paris.
(UPDATES AND EDITING SATURDAY PM)
(INFORMATION FROM BFM-TV VIA GOOGLE TRANSLATION USED IN THIS POST)
We shall see what the New Year brings and what materializes on New Year's Eve with the scheduled protests.
They want Macron’s head on a platter.
Why read your non-sourced stuff when this is available from Voice of Europe?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3716097/posts
But, do they like cake....?
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