Posted on 01/13/2019 2:29:38 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
More than 84,000 people took part in the protests in Paris, Marseille, Bordeaux, Lyon, Strasbourg, and other French cities on Saturday.
Clashes eventually erupted at the iconic Champs Ulysses and Arc de Triomphe, with police using tear gas and water cannons to calm the angry crowds, RT reports. In Paris alone, 156 people were arrested during the standoff, with most of them put in custody, the law enforcers said.
In Nimes, protesters attempted to storm City Hall and police deployed tear gas against them. Clashes were also reported in Bourges in central France, where the local authorities said that 5,000 were rallying.
Around 1,000 demonstrators also made their way to the hippodrome and caused a delay of races in the horseracing town of Chantilly, north of Paris.
The French government earlier vowed zero tolerance for violence at the protests, with 80,000 security personnel deployed across France on the weekend.
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Champs Ulysses is my favorite place.
Go Yellow Vests, bust them Elitist heads and oil up the Guillotine.
Indeed. Some pretty pathetic editing.
Allons! A bas les aristos!
Mission accomplished.
Its Champs-Élysées
Reports are they’ve destroyed 60-70% of red light cameras in the country.
This is what happens when the government’s response to people’s grievances is “shut up, bigots”.
When you won’t let people speak to each other in public or those in power about their problems, when you won’t let them hash it out peacefully in public, all they have left is violence.
Lesson learned - let people speak - to each other and those in power.
A government can only rule with the consent of the people. If they will not obey—only fear and terrors will enforce rule. The Republic will be seen as what it is—a sham. Liberty will come them from the mob. It will be the end of the 5th Republic and the EU—Beware, Germany may well invade to prop up Macron as elections are cancelled.
Note that in France water cannon and tear gas is used to “calm” the protesters...
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