Posted on 01/05/2019 5:45:30 PM PST by Nextrush
"Once again extreme violence has come to attack the Republic...."
French President Emmanuel Macron on Twitter following Act 8 of the Yellow Vests Protest 1/5/2019
The police in France officially are saying some 50-thousand protested this Saturday in the country, up from 32-thousand last Saturday.
Peaceful processions in many cities and towns across the country throughout the day.
35-hundred protesters were identified in Paris by the police. 34 arrests reported there at the end of the day as there were confrontations between protesters and police. Fires were set in a few locations.
Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner described the protests as "more urban" meaning fewer road blockages on highways or at oil refineries. The highway blockages have often been centered at toll booths operated by private companies given concessions to run highways in France.
Castaner spoke of incidents at city halls and town halls across France where protesters tried to enter.
But these situations appear to be few and far between.
A pallet pulling machine was seized today and rammed into the gates at the office of the man who speaks for President Emmanuel Macron's government, Benjamin Griveaux. Griveaux and his associates left through the back door.
The Secretary of State for the Ministry of the Interior, Laurent Nunez, decried the conduct of Yellow Vests protesters saying that while Yellow Vests protests start well they:
"always end with violence driven by seditious, factious"
Regarding next Saturday's Act 9 of protest, Nunez said:
"we will not lower the guard in front of the totalitarianism"
(COMMENT AND ANALYSIS)
To sum up the situation today, a regenerated protest movement spread out across the country in cities and towns. Processions in Paris and some other places instead of static protesting everywhere, although in many cities and towns groups gathered at one location.
Protesters calling on President Emmanuel Macron to resign and for signatures for RIC (Constitutional Referendum Initiative) that would force the National Assembly to draft a law for approval in a referendum.
Last month, the "Free Yellow Vests" group warned against being drawn into the trap of staying in a cage-like setting on the Champs-Elysees with riot police being the "animal trainers".
It looks like their thinking has asserted itself.
The government put out tough statements about violence and extremism, but there was much less evidence of that in today's protest.
The fact that the police did not make massive arrests today would seem to attest to that. They could find the Yellow Vests doing nothing to justify arrests on the scale of past Saturdays.
The government will continue its propaganda campaign against the Yellow Vests. One leader, Sophie, said through the megaphone today in Paris there will be protests every Saturday in 2019.
Its wintertime now and one wonders if the numbers on the streets pick up as the weather warms up later in the year.
As an armchair observer, I can’t tell whether these protests will top out and die out, or reach a critical mass where they snowball. Last week I would have said “taper and die.” Now, I’m less certain.
32,000 last Saturday, now 50,000 today.
There’s a trend here.
And Macron’s sheer tone-deafness and arrogance is really pouring gasoline on the fire.
Macaroni better have a contingency plan to beat feet before they storm the Bastille.
What’s the story behind the yellow shirts? Liberal, conservative?anti immigration, pro immigration?
I’m not an expert, but it appears to be a genuine ground-up protest by ordinary working people (thus the weekend rallies) fed up with Euro-taxes, Euro-immigration, and Euro-elites.
And Macron is willingly playing the role of the bad guy.
They would have petered out if Macaroni didn’t go out of his way to insult them new year’s eve. His name should be Moron.
“The president offered an unsparing, if broad, assessment of the protest movement, saying that some “take as a pretext that they are speaking in the name of the people” when “in fact they are merely speaking for a hateful mob that takes after elected officials, the police, journalists, Jews, foreigners, homosexuals.””
Nice. Inspiring, conciliatory... NOT.
Grandma’s checking out real Estate on St Helena.
Wait for the spring and summer. This is just starting.
Mostly working people. Thus the weekend protests. Left and right. Mostly anti immigrant. Almodt all anti eu and anti globalist. Students have joined in. They have separate issues regarding govt school policies. Macron was told by his eu masters to change the french economy.google it. The french people on both sides are opposing his “reforms.” Police in the smaller towns very sympathetic to the protesters. If macron falls new govt will likely still be socialist but more nationalistic in nature. Le pen still rising though.
In B4 the ever hyporitical HG.
What is “hyporitical”?
B4?
Are you playing Bingo?
BINGO!
The French are required to have a yellow vest in the trunk of their car for emergencies.
THIS is an emergency, no?
He’s a 41 year old cuck with a 65 year old wife. He loves his mommy.
What is wrong with this world?
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