Protests call for Macron’s resignation as France comes to the brink of state of emergency

NY Post ^ | December 3, 2018 | Max Jaeger

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Protests call for Macron’s resignation as France comes to the brink of state of emergency

French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday would not rule out imposing a state of emergency as nationwide economic protests turned violent in the capital, Paris. Macron was forced to fly home from the G-20 summit in Argentina for an emergency huddle with advisers on how to quell the worst civil unrest to grip the City of Light in a decade. Thousands have taken to the streets, with some torching cars and scrawling anti-government graffiti on cultural icons such as the Arc de Triomphe. Macron, 40, was greeted with boos and chants of “Macron resign” as he surveyed damage on the 2-century-old monument to France’s war dead Sunday. Inside the monument, the “La Marseillaise” statue by François Rude commemorating the French Revolution was defaced by protesters, who smashed a likeness of the Revolution’s allegorical icon, Marianne.

[Wallace T.]

When the Romanian military refused to put down anti-Communist rioters in Timisoara, that was the end of the Ceausescu regime. If the French military and national police act likewise, the Fifth Republic will fall, and perhaps the European Union as well. Hopefully, this rebellion will spread to the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, and Germany.

[rrrod]

Correct!

[Boogieman]

Yeah, it seems like rioting has been a national pastime for the French for centuries.

[Hartmann]

Macron thinks he’s Napoleon, but he’s just as much of a deadhead as Louis XVI. If he continues with his “let them eat cake” approach, he’s gone. If the French could get rid of De Gaulle (in 1968), Macron is chicken soup.

[The Great RJ]

Consider one of the major causes of the riots...taxes and other cost increases associated with Macron’s green agenda. I doubt Macron can survive his presidency and will be forced to resign.