Posted on 12/15/2018 8:20:17 AM PST by RoosterRedux
French President Emmanuel Macron was not only present at the Élysée Palace during “Act IV” of the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) protests but had a helicopter on standby to escape in case protesters broke in, according to reports.
The French leader fortified the Élysée Palace last Saturday with an unprecedented amount of security, including 500 republican guards, around a hundred police and gendarmes armed with water cannons, and other anti-riot measures, Le Dauphine reports.
Should the protesters have managed to storm the Élysée and get past security, President Macron is also said to have had a helicopter on standby to evacuate him and others in what could have echoed the escape of former Romanian president Nicolae Ceaușescu, who fled a popular uprising by helicopter during the collapse of his Communist regime on December 22, 1989.
Witnesses at the Élysée last Saturday described the French leader as “like marble” in front of the protests that not only saw high levels of violence in Paris but also in other French cities like Toulouse and Bordeaux.
The protests have put the French president on the back foot for the past several weeks and have continued even after the government agreed to the initial demand of cancelling a tax hike on fuel.
Earlier this week, Macron offered several more concessions including a 100 euro per month increase in the French minimum wage and several tax breaks such as making overtime work tax-free and calling for companies to give employees year-end bonuses that would also not be taxed.
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I’d let her comfort me
She’s incredible
For 65
But I’m 61
Macron is 40
Weird
Where’s Madame Defarge when she’s needed?
“Was he planning on taking Mama with him?”
Reminds me of the “Seinfeld” episode where George pushes the old ladies and kids aside to escape the apartment fire!
He is indeed. He has been made to eat his words, albeit it with Béarnaise sauce and a nice Cabernet.
The guy at the back of the line is saying, “I don’t think we’re all gonna fit on that helicopter!”
Ok they gave our VSGPDJT crap for not taking a copter ride to the WWII event, and Macron has this? The difference is imho our Intel knew France was a **it storm waiting to happen and didn’t want to expose our Lion to danger, Macron is clueless to the heart of his country and prolly had crappy intel....
Yep. Ceausescu was a dictator. Macron is but a fool. However, connecting the two is just part of my long-term plan to gently mock the Left.
Ahh !
Agree then!
He didn’t want his Ceaucescu-moment.
I think it’s going to take a lot. When their was a putsch against DeGaulle he pretty much destroyed the Legionaire units involved and their senior officers got long jail sentences. The French Army wouldn’t forget that example.
That’s WHY they call him “Maricon Macron”!
Better the Chateau d’If
Like Louis XV and Marie Antoinette, who fled in a coach, but forgot to take small change with them. When they tried to pay an innkeeper with a high-value coin, they were betrayed, imprisoned and eventually guillotined.
Code name Marie Antoinette!
The climate mouse had an escape route
...LMAO...
Deserted him. I can tell you the marines were never with him.
So apparently the strategy consisting of flooding you country with illiterate immigrants who then require higher taxes for support, is NOT working. Hmmm. Perhaps it was just poor execution. Lol.
Exactly what is the motive of importing all those muslims into Europe?
Surely it isn't the same as the motive of the Democrats for importing all those illegals from south of the border into the U.S. That motive is, ostensibly, to create a new Dem voting bloc in case Blacks wise up and escape the plantation.
So what is the EU motive for importing all those wild and crazy muslims?
Is it to destroy the tiny remnants of Christianity still alive in Europe? They have already destroyed themselves with their secularism.
Is it to create a vacuum that only greater state/government police power can fill (i.e., to deal with the lawless muzzies)?
Who the hell knows.
Not me.
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