Posted on 12/09/2018 3:34:07 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
More than 1,700 people were arrested across France during the latest "yellow vest" protests, which left 135 people injured and caused widespread damage.
Of the 1,723 detained on Saturday, 1,220 were ordered to be held in custody, according to the interior ministry.
Despite the security clampdown clashes broke out in several cities across the country, including Marseille, Bordeaux and Lyon and Toulouse, during a fourth weekend of protests against rising living costs and the embattled French President Emmanuel Macron.
Paris again saw the worst of the of the violence as protesters, wearing their distinctive yellow safety jackets, set fire to cars, burned barricades and smashed windows.
Police, backed up by armoured vehicles, responded with tear gas and water cannon. Baton-wielding snatch squads were also in operation.
More than half of those injured - 71 - were in the capital, seven of them police officers.
Official estimates put the number taking part in Saturday's protests at 136,000 people, including 10,000 in Paris.
Paris deputy mayor Emmanuel Gregoire told France Inter radio the damage was more widespread that the previous week.
"With fewer barricades, there was much more dispersion, so many more places were impacted by violence," he said.
The latest protests drew the attention of US President Donald Trump, who said they were a reflection of the failure of the Paris Agreement on climate change.
He also claimed that protesters were shouting "We want Trump" - something widely discredited among French media.
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Looks like the French have discarded their tu tu’s
Yes, I noticed that too.
They don’t arrest muslims this way who riot.
You know, they need to keep protesting. Double down, even. Make the authorities need to arrest 500,000 people ... just in Paris! Make them need to arrest EVERYONE in France. Then take NO PLEA DEALS. Make them try EVERYONE, FULL trial, FULL discovery, FULL jury deliberations, THEN FILE APPEALS.
Overwhelm the system.
they should also sue in the EU court system for everything they can think of. Overload the very systems the elite created.
It's even a bit stronger than that - from a UK driving organization for visiting France in your car -
Reflective jackets (one for each occupant, these must be kept inside the vehicle within easy reach)
With a yellow jacket for each occupant there are certainly plenty to go around...:^)
Reflective jackets (one for each occupant, these must be kept inside the vehicle within easy reach)
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Guess the progressives figure that it is another way to ‘tax’ people and figure the vest is the same as having a life jacket on a boat or smoke detector in a home.
Wonder if the GOVT ‘gives away’ the vests?
We sometimes have firefighters going to neighborhoods and checking homes for smoke detectors and give them away on occasion(?).
Have these selfish serfs no vision for what is really needed...?
Come out Macron...
Reflective jackets (one for each occupant, these must be kept inside the vehicle within easy reach)
The overloads never considered these required things would become a symbol of rejection of them. LOL LOL LOL!!!
Observing the continuous unintended negative consequences that befall ptoggies is great entertainment. Never ceasing. LOL!
Hey, if you don’t approve of the socialist destruction of your country then they’ll jail you. What could go wrong with that?
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