Posted on 09/21/2019 4:57:46 PM PDT by Nextrush
"France In Paris" is the theme for Week 45 with Facebook calls for protesters to gather on the Champs-Elysees at 10 am.
Activist Jerome Rodrigues saying that after ten months the "government ignores our claims and despises us"....
Prefect of Police Didier Lallemont warning Friday that those who want to:
"take their revenge"
should not come to Paris today......
Thirty metro stations in the center of Paris were closed this morning by order of the government with nine arrests reported initially.
The Saint-Lazare train station was the site of a protest by several dozen protesters who were met with tear gas by police....
By mid-day police and protesters clashing as the demonstrators tied to enter the Champs-Elysees....
Climate change protesters in Paris today estimated by 38-thousand while police say only 15,200 demonstrated.....
Some six-thousand estimated by police protesting President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform today in Paris.
Mainstream media reporting points to anarchists ("black blos") infiltrating the climate change march and engaging in fighting with police.....
The confrontations continued on the Champs-Elysees into Saturday evening.....
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Went to Normandy this summer with some friends. Spent one day in Paris. Said to my friend, “Now I see what the Dems are doing with all their nutty ideas—trying to impress the French!”
I flew in-out of Paris on my way to Italy.
Just that brief exposure to France and its socialist mentality cured me of ever wanting to go to France ever again.
My liberal niece visits her married friend in Paris, she realizes that the exceptional, amazing, forward thinking, generous French that pay for all your needs was disappointing. Being a large lady and visiting in a heat wave, air-conditioning even in a posh upper class hotel for dinner left her sweating, museums, cafes, even in apartments where she stayed AC is scares, walking everywhere was also a chore, limited escalators and elevators. The fantasy is alluring and quickly loses its luster
We just got back from Normandy/Verdun. :-)
Are they sure it wasn’t 91,425 ?
From what I see posted on social media/Independent Journalists France has become a brutal police state. The lack of coverage for the Yellow Vests/Gilets Jaunes protest movement continues to boggle my mind.
The narrative is controlled by the governments, and complicit media in their employ. Even people I know in Europe say there is little coverage of the protests in France.
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