.....what are the protests about?.....
I don’t call these protests.
Diesel prices, apparently. The Euros have been jerked around quite a bit on Diesel. The technocrats and greens decided that everyone should be driving Diesels and taxed gasoline almost out of existence. Then, after everyone complied and bought Diesels, the technocrats decided that Diesels were now bad and are taxing those out of existence.
They are wearing yellow vests because French law requires you to keep one in your car.
Of course, instead of voting against the idiots who screw them over, they have made the typical French response.