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France removes EU flag from Arc de Triomphe after right-wing outrage
Deutsche Welle ^ | 01.02.2021 | mvb/rs (AFP, Reuters)

Posted on 01/02/2022 7:54:36 AM PST by Olog-hai

French authorities on Sunday removed a large European Union flag attached to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris after right-wing and far-right opponents of President Emmanuel Macron accused him of “erasing” French identity.

“Preside over Europe yes, erase French identity no!” tweeted Valerie Pecresse, the conservative candidate for the Republicans. Polls indicate she could be the primary challenger to French President Emmanuel Macron in the upcoming vote.

She called on Macron to restore the French flag at the iconic war monument.

“We owe it to our soldiers who spilled their blood for it,” she said.

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen praised the removal of the flag on Sunday as a win for the far-right. A day prior, she threatened to appeal to France’s Council of State to remove the flag. …

(Excerpt) Read more at dw.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: arcdetriomphe; emmanuelmacron; europeanunion; eussr; fourthreich; france; paris

1 posted on 01/02/2022 7:54:36 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

And yet the mooslim migrants are erasing French culture by replacing it.


2 posted on 01/02/2022 7:59:45 AM PST by rfreedom4u ("You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas")
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To: Olog-hai

France removes “””LEFT WING SOCIALIST””” EU flag from Arc de Triomphe after right-wing outrage ‘at left wing BS’.

Better?


3 posted on 01/02/2022 8:04:25 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Olog-hai

It’s a start...


4 posted on 01/02/2022 8:04:49 AM PST by bigbob
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To: rfreedom4u

There is no “right”; only the “far-right” exists.


5 posted on 01/02/2022 8:05:18 AM PST by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: Olog-hai

Face it. France had catastrophic losses of its best genetic stock during the Napoleonic wars and the European civil wars of 1914-1945. It was even worse for Germany, Russia and Britain. Being overrun by culturally alien migrants, horrid leadership and cultural decay was inevitable.


6 posted on 01/02/2022 8:06:04 AM PST by allendale
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To: rktman

Looks better to me. Just have to add “Permanently”, though . . . something that Pecresse does not seem to want with her “Preside over Europe, yes” imperialistic outlook.


7 posted on 01/02/2022 8:07:04 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: allendale

Genes do not determine godliness. Adam had perfect genes and rejected God’s way of life outright.


8 posted on 01/02/2022 8:22:17 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai
"...after right-wing outrage"

Now that is something I've NEVER, EVER seen or heard in the USA.

It's always "a couple of [radical leftist] guys with a fax machine" (as Rush used to say) that stir up the pot, get highly vocal, and get the Boardroom guys to immediately cave.

Can anybody remember a time in the USA when "right-wing outrage" made something happen?

9 posted on 01/02/2022 8:38:26 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
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To: rfreedom4u

Or burning it down like Notre Dame.


10 posted on 01/02/2022 8:53:33 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction". It is dying on Our Watch!)
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To: Olog-hai

FTA
“Officials took down a temporary European Union flag at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris after it drew fury from conservatives and the far right. The flag was intended to mark the start of France’s six-month EU presidency.”

Just looking at the color being projected by the lights
at the memorial picture could be the problem.

FRI
Macron’s covert change of blue to tricolour French flag ‘echoes heroic past’

Issued on: 21/11/2021
https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20211121-macron-s-covert-change-of-blue-to-tricolour-french-flag-a-symbol-of-heroic-past
“It’s a change so subtle it went unnoticed for almost three years, but President Emmanuel Macron ordered a deeper colour change to the French flag to symbolise the heroics of France’s past.

Keen-eyed observers may notice the red, white, and blue tricolour flying above the Elysée Palace – and also positioned behind Macron in speeches – bears a darker navy blue that’s now replaced the previous bright blue.

The navy blue marks a return to tradition. It was former president Valery Giscard d’Estaing who switched to the brighter blue in 1976 so that it matched the colour of the European flag, which displays yellow stars on a blue background.

The change to Pantone Reflex Blue was made on the flags placed behind Macron at speeches from 2018, and updated on those flying atop the Elysée and other presidential buildings from 2020, said a presidential official who asked not to be named.

The official said that the navy blue colour “evokes the memory” of the heroes who fought in the French Revolution, the trenches of World War I and in the Resistance during World War II.”


11 posted on 01/02/2022 9:01:29 AM PST by Scram1
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To: Olog-hai
Have been to France a number of times, from Lille to Paris, Nice, Ile d'Oleron, and Toulouse. Have fond memories and made a lot of friends. This is the scene in Casablanca that always gets to me.

Long past time they stood up to Brussels (and Frankfurt). They're going to have to shave some heads and take care of Macron Pétain and his fellow collaborators in the process. Heads should literally roll, but the guillotine is unfortunately retired.

12 posted on 01/02/2022 9:24:52 AM PST by katana
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
How would you describe Jan. 6?

I think of it as a mini riot by a few conservatives, i.e., the right-wing, urged on by federal agents and Antifa members.

By my memory, that brings the score of mini riots by the right-wing vs. violent riots by the left-wing to about 1000 to 1.

Search for “Jan. 6 capitol damage”, look at the “images”, and see for yourself just how little damage was done to the capitol.

Then search for “Reichstag fire” and look at those images. That’s real damage.

And remember the guy who was convicted of “trespassing while carrying an American Flag” was sentenced to 41 months in prison!

13 posted on 01/02/2022 10:28:14 AM PST by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: Olog-hai

I’m glad there are still a lot of Frenchies left who love their country and don’t want to see it absorbed in the great big expanding blob known as the “european union.”


14 posted on 01/02/2022 10:55:48 AM PST by I want the USA back (Government is to be feared much more than the chicom virus.)
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To: Scram1

Huh. That’s a rather surprising thing to come from Macron...


15 posted on 01/02/2022 10:59:28 AM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: allendale
France however was largely untouched by The Great Depression and was able to sink millions into building The Maginot Line believing it would spare another generation of French youth being slaughtered.

You're right though, Europe's decline began in 1914 and is accelerating rapidly.

16 posted on 01/05/2022 10:59:39 AM PST by jmacusa (America.Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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