Posted on 12/08/2018 12:28:29 AM PST by caww
Paris was in lockdown early on Saturday with 'thousands' of French security forces braced to meet renewed rioting by "yellow vest" protesters in the capital and other cities in a fourth weekend of confrontation.....
The Eiffel Tower and other tourist landmarks were shut, shops were boarded up to avoid looting and street furniture removed to avoid metal bars from being used as projectiles.
About 89,000 police were deployed across the country.
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
I’m on the train to Paris from Barcelona and I was afraid they might try to block the Spanish border today. No problem, I’m in France and about half way to Paris now. But I am a little concerned about the arrival, because blocking or attacking trains is a big European “protest” technique.
Needless to say, I planned my trip well before the riots broke out! However, the train is pretty sparsely populated, even though this is a holiday weekend, so I think a lot of people cancelled.
Police are seizing protective equipment from journalists and barring some provincial yellow vest protesters from boarding trains to Paris, as part of exceptionally stringent security measures to prevent a repeat of last week’s rioting, reports AP.
Correct... far too many put stock in Trump... I love Trump... but he is one man against a machine. He can only do so much.
If we, the taxpayers, want permanent change, repeal the 17th Amendment and 16th Amendment.
17th first...
We will have to wait and see. I’m sure Barr will get confirmed.
By far that’s the best thing I’ve seen on him.
But so hard to tell the swampsters when you are living in the swamp yourself.
And we need hope.
Cmon, guys. Take it to another thread. This is about France and you’re getting reports from Freepers on the ground, don’t interrupt them.
mark
“The latest clash on the #ChampsElysees - tear gas & stun Grenada are fired to push back protesters from the narrow side streets back onto the wide boulevards. So far 481 people have been arrested in the #Paris region alone”. - Sky News
I believe he got a huge boost from the immigrant vote. If it were only real Frenchmen voting, he would have lost.
“could anybody be worse than Jeff Sessions?”
I stopped asking that basic question when I asked it about Bill Clinton. Eight years later ... the Magic Negro.
Very glad to have visited Paris this Spring before all this went down. I feel for the merchantswho are not making a living while this unrest goes on. However Macron must go, and FRexit must happen.
Youtube
LIVE! In Paris France On The Ground With The Yellow Vests
Really?
“Can the French foreign legion be deployed in times of crisis on French soil? Does any freeper know?”
The wiki doesnt specifically note such a restriction. But the history records no deployment within France. Perhaps France gas something similar to Posse Comitatus Act.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Foreign_Legion
Not a peep when they were flooded with 7th century troglodytes but raise their taxes like they voted for and all hell breaks loose.
So many Californians are not Americans … by choice.
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