Posted on 12/01/2018 8:04:52 AM PST by Olog-hai
Protesters angry about rising taxes clashed with French police for a third straight weekend and more than 100 were arrested Saturday. Pockets of demonstrators built makeshift barricades in the middle of streets in central Paris, lit fires, sprayed graffiti on the Arc de Triomphe and threw rocks at officers.
Protesters, including some wearing black hoods, piled up large plywood planks and other material in the middle of a street near the Arc de Triomphe, and set the debris ablaze.
Police fired tear gas and used water cannons to try to push back the protesters who gathered around the Arc de Triomphe. Some demonstrators responded by throwing large rocks. […]
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said some protesters attacked police forces “with a rarely seen violence,” leading to the arrest of at least 107 people. […]
Rabah Mendez, a protester who came from a southern suburb to march peacefully in Paris, said “people say it’s difficult to reach the end of the month. People work and pay a lot of taxes and we are fed up.”
Paris resident Hedwige Lebrun said “the purchasing power is severely diminishing every day. And then: taxes, taxes and taxes. And the state is asking us to tighten our belts, but they at the contrary live totally above all standard with our money.” …
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Exactly...the effeminate Euroweenies give mussie scum a pass.
Those Euroweenies are taxed to death. What would you do it you had to pay over $7.00 for a gallon of gas? How would it effect your costs of getting to work, your travel plans, your vacations? You know nothing about what they have to put up with unless you live there for a period of time.
You have no idea of thr places I’ve travelled. Take a pill...
The places you’ve “traveled” says nothing about your knowledge of the people and the country. I KNOW from your remarks that your knowledge of France is zilch! I lived there over a quarter century. I know the French, their weaknesses and their MANY great virtues. You know nothing!
I’m enjoying the riots...a lot.
The frogs wanted socialism and high taxes and they got it. They should just shut up and enjoy the screw they asked for.
I warned my friends about Macron. Glad to see him getting his due.
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