Do some French people see what's going on? Yellow Vest Protests

The scene lasted less than a minute but was extremely violent. Three motorcyclists probably positioned at the beginning of George-V Avenue, at the corner of the Champs-Elysées, were attacked this Saturday by a large number of yellow vests thugs from the banlieues / black blocs / agents provocateurs (notice that many of them wore hoods) who wanted to fight with the police. A video relayed on social networks shows the scene, taking place when the Yellow Vests went down the Champs-Elysées at around 5:30 pm.
Amazing. Here I was thinking this was cooling off and I'm wrong AGAIN.

Guessing who is who there is to play Russian Roulette. Those large metal posts being thrown at the police could do a lot of damage ;-)

No matter what, the French have shown the rest of sleeping Europe how to protest and no one can take that away from them "agents provocateurs" or not.
 
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Does the video of the police bikers serve the yellow waistcoats by putting pressure on the GVT and forgetting the low mobilization or does it serve the GVT by demonizing and extrémisant the yellow waistcoats

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🎥 6/A 1:06, one of the three policemen receives a scooter on the figure, thrown by a breaker. He fled, leaving his two colleagues struggling with dozens of crackers, men in black and #GiletsJaunes screaming. The tension is huge. #ActeVI

 
For no good reason, motorcyclists threw de-encercling grenades to injure peaceful yellow vests. In the face of this violence, demonstrators retaliated. BFMTV, which belongs to Drahi (Macron's friend), deliberately cut the beginning of the sequence by saying that police motorcyclists are attacked by a group of individuals.

This grenade should only be used in close self-defence and not for remote crowd control because of its dangerousness. It is composed of a TNT load, 18 semi-rigid rubber pads, hard plastic and also metal elements.

 
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Sun Dec 23, 2018 - French Police Probe Yellow Vests After Macron Beheaded in Effigy
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French authorities opened a probe into a performance during which an effigy of French President Emmanuel Macron was beheaded by Yellow Vest protesters in the city of Angouleme, Charente, on Saturday.

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During the performance, demonstrators dragged a human-sized doll with an eyeless effigy of Macron attached to its head onto a sports field, RIA Novosti reported.

A man dressed as an executioner then entered the arena and beheaded the doll with a large axe. Following the mock execution, the doll's head — with the effigy still in place — was placed on a spike. The remainder of the doll was reportedly burned.

Photos of the performance immediately became viral across French media and social media, catching the attention of authorities.

Officials representing the Charente prefecture on Saturday reacted to the performance with outrage, stating that "these events seriously affect both the person and the function of the President of the Republic".

The performance is "likely to be classified as criminal," a prefecture official tweeted.

Shortly thereafter, a criminal probe was opened into the event, confirmed by regional prosecutor Jean-David Cavaillé. According to Cavaillé, the act has been classified as a "provocation to crime and contempt".

The performance met mixed reactions on social media, with many arguing that the yellow vest protest movement has "degenerated" and is becoming "illegal".

On Friday, the French Senate backed a draft law on emergency economic and social measures declared by authorities in response to the Yellow Vest protests. The proposed measures include annual bonuses for employees and exemptions from increased social security tax for pensioners who earn less than 2,000 euros (over $2,200) per month.


Sun Dec 23, 2018 - France: 220 Yellow Vests Detained
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The atmosphere at the Yellow Vest protests in the heart of the French capital became more strained as demonstrators engage in scuffles with police officers.

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Saturday’s protest started with calm demonstrations but a few hours later tensions rose and police resorted to force against the rioters in the capital, Europe News reported.

The France Info radio station reported that the police had detained 220 protesters across the country.

Over 140 protesters were arrested in Paris by 6 pm, including one Yellow Vests leader, a truck driver named Eric Drouet, for organizing an "illegal demonstration" that disrupted public traffic, wielding an "offensive weapon" and taking part in mob violence, according to a source from the prosecutor.

The number of people who took part in “yellow vest” rallies across France on Saturday has exceeded 38,000, local media reported, citing the Interior Ministry.

On Friday, a driver was accidentally killed during the yellow vest protests in the Southern French city of Perpignan, bringing the total number of people killed since the start of the demonstrations to 10, local media reported.

France has been hit by a sixth consecutive weekend of Yellow Vest rallies. Previous protests turned violent, with demonstrators hurling stones and fireworks at police, while law enforcement resorted to using tear gas and water cannon. The mayhem has left almost 3,000 people, both protesters and police officers, injured. Over 4,500 have been detained and placed into custody since mid-November.



Sun Dec 23, 2018 - Hundreds of Israeli ‘Yellow Vests’ Protest High Cost of living
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Hundreds of protesters wearing yellow vests took to the streets of Tel Aviv, outraged by high cost of living.

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Protesters marched through the streets holding banners and chanting, massdar news reported.

Despite being inspired by the French ‘Yellow Vest’ protesters, the organizer of the demonstration in the Israeli capital Boaz Zonshaine said that Israeli protesters were not as violent as their French counterparts.

“But we share the same pain,” added Zonshaine.

The ‘Yellow Vest’ movement first emerged last month in France after French President Emmanuel Macron announced hikes in fuel prices to encourage a transition towards greener energy.

The French government has now suspended the prices hikes but despite this the protests continue.


December 22, 2018 - Few turn out for French 'yellow vest' Protests, driver dies at Road Block
Few turn out for French 'yellow vest' protests, driver dies at road block | Reuters

TOULOUSE/PARIS, France - France’s anti-government “yellow vest” protest was losing steam on Saturday but caused traffic disruption through road blocks across the country, leading to the death of a 10th person since the start of the movement last month.

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A protester wearing a yellow vest attends a demonstration by the "yellow vests" movement as police use a water cannon on the Champs Elysees near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France, December 22, 2018. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann

The turnout on the streets of Paris and other cities was smaller than in previous weekends, authorities said. No major damage or clashes had been reported between police and protesters as of mid-afternoon.

About 23,800 people were demonstrating at 1300 GMT, including fewer than 1,000 in Paris, the interior ministry said. This was down from a week ago at the same time when there were 33,500 protesters out on the streets, 2,200 of which were in Paris.

Authorities had expected a march in Versailles, whose castle is a symbol of French state power and one of Europe’s top tourist attractions.

But few “gilets jaunes” (yellow vest) protesters - so-called after the high-visibility jackets French motorists must carry in their cars - showed up in the formal royal city.

Dispersed groups of protesters were out on the streets of Paris near tourist landmarks such as the Sacre Coeur Basilica and the Galeries Lafayette department stores, singing La Marseillaise and calling for President Emmanuel Macron’s resignation.

Attendance was on the rise, however, in Lyon and Bordeaux, according to Reuters witnesses. Protesters also managed to block some of the big highways, including one leading to Spain.


Late on Friday, a 36-year-old man died in Perpignan, southern France, when his car hit a truck at a road block erected by protesters, raising the death toll linked to the demonstrations to 10.

On Saturday, police fired tear gas against protesters who gathered near Macron’s villa in the chic resort of Le Touquet in northern France.

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In the French capital, the police arrested 109 protesters, seven of whom were held in custody.

Three weeks ago the protests in Paris turned into some of the worst unrest seen in the capital since the student-led civil unrest of 1968. Cars were set on fire, bank and insurance offices’ windows smashed and street furniture was vandalized.

Of the ten deaths linked to the protests, most have been the result of road accidents.

The “yellow vest” protesters began in mid-November to rally against fuel tax increases and subsequently against the wider liberal economic reform policy of Macron, who made tax and salary concessions earlier this month.

But the movement has gradually lost steam in recent weeks.

Since he caved in to protesters in a TV address on Dec 10, Macron, who turned 41 on Friday, has largely kept out of the public eye, staying inside the Elysee palace for what his press team called internal meetings.

A recent poll showed France’s far-right party National Rally, formerly known as the National Front, confirmed it was so far the biggest political beneficiary of the protests.

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Few turn out for French 'yellow vest' protests, driver dies at road block | Reuters
 
On Friday, the French Senate backed a draft law on emergency economic and social measures declared by authorities in response to the Yellow Vest protests. The proposed measures include annual bonuses for employees and exemptions from increased social security tax for pensioners who earn less than 2,000 euros (over $2,200) per month.

In fact, the provision is more twisted than that because it is not at all question of granting an end-of-year bonus, but simply of proposing to private companies that could pay it, that it be exempt from charges. In practice, almost no company will pay this bonus. This government is only generous with other people's money.
 
The truth about the video of the three bikers of the police Avenue des Champs-Elysées.

The media have constantly broadcast the video of three police motorcyclists fleeing to avoid a lynching, one of them even drawing his weapon.

In the official version, they were reportedly violently attacked by dozens of yellow vests and/or breakers. On the continuous news channels such as TF1 and france2, these images made the headlines, with no other explanation than the angry madness of the demonstrators. However, what these media are willing to keep quiet about is how all this started, I'm happy to say because they only broadcast the end of the video, but to understand it properly, it's important to read it in its entirety.

The video taken a few seconds earlier (below) reveals a completely different truth. Indeed, before the crowd furiously threw themselves at these policemen, we see them throwing two "de-embarking" grenades at the feet of the demonstrators, then totally pacifist, their reaction of anger becoming, even unacceptable, then understandable.

These three motorcyclists have provoked the yellow vests, there is no doubt about it; what is in question now is who they are taking orders from, because it is hard to believe in personal initiative.

La vérité sur la vidéo des trois motards de la police Avenue des Champs-Elysées

When questioned in the TF1 13H newspaper this Sunday, a police officer who was not on site justified that the grenades were thrown because "projectiles were starting to fly, which you don't see in the images".

In my opinion, cornered behind what obviously looks like a gratuitous act and in the face of the popularity of full video on social networks, the police, rather than confess to the attempt to rot, preferred to get bogged down in lies on the pretext of imaginary projectiles.

And so it was that on TF1 (and sisters), the misinformation of an early afternoon replaced the misinformation of an evening.

The three motorcyclists provoked the yellow vests, there is no doubt about it; what is in question now is who they get the orders from, because it is hard to believe in a personal initiative.

All this says a lot about the control of power over the media. The pseudo journalists of these media and PTB insist on the fact that it is the YV, without prevaricating that they can be breakers or provocateurs. They still do not understand that this way of doing things no longer works...

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Niall Bradley to PressTV: 'Yellow Vests Movement a Result of Sclerotic, Totalitarian Politics in Western Europe' -- Sott.net
PressTV Mon, 24 Dec 2018 14:46 UTC
They got their name from high-visibility jackets that French motorists have since 2008 been legally obliged to purchase and carry in all vehicles. Beginning as rallies in France in mid-November in protest against fuel tax hikes, the Yellow Vest movement voiced opposition to President Emanuel Macron's economic reforms, and even demand that he resign.

Inspired by Yellow Vest protests in France, copy-cat rallies have also been held in Belgium, Portugal, Ireland, the UK, Sweden and Germany. What is going on here, and where is it all headed?

On today's The Debate, we discuss the revolutionary mood in Europe with Kenneth Fero, lecturer at Coventry University in the UK, and Niall Bradley, editor at independent news site SOTT.net



 
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P. métaph. L'accroissement rapide des effectifs modérés, dans le vieux parti socialiste, ne doit pas davantage tromper sur la vitalité que garde l'esprit révolutionnaire. Nous devons nous attendre, un jour ou l'autre, à l'une de ces résurgences où le fleuve perdu réapparaît tout à coup à la lumière du jour, où des forces devenues souterraines brisent leurs parois de rochers (J.-R. Bloch, Dest. du S.,1931, p. 23).
B. − Au fig. Fait de réapparaître, de ressurgir. Quoi qu'il en soit, et bien que les douleurs, quand on ne les accueille pas, sachent se mettre en réserve pour de futures résurgences et cheminent en nous souterrainement, celle-là, ce jour-là, ne fut reçue qu'avec froideur (Abellio,Pacifiques,1946, p. 179).
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Étymol. et Hist. 1. 1896 géogr. (Martel, Applications géologiques de la spéléologie, in Annales des mines. Haug, Traité de géologie, I, 359 ds Quem. DDL t. 5); 1901 (E.-A. Martel, Note ds C.r. de l'Ac. des sc. t. 133, p. 1262); 2. 1924 « fait de ressurgir, réapparaître (Albert Thibaudet, in Nouv. R. fr., t. 20, p. 132: La résurgence de Valéry, qui était du même âge que Proust). Dér. sav. du lat. resurgens, -entis, v. résurgent, sur le modèle des mots -ent/-ence comme décadent, décadence. Cf. le m. fr. resurgence « résurrection » (Guill. Guerouet, Fig. de l'Anc. Testament, S. Jean, 20 édit. 1565 ds Fonds Barbier). Bbg. Quem. DDL t. 24 (s.v. résurger).

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About 23,800 people were demonstrating at 1300 GMT, including fewer than 1,000 in Paris, the interior ministry said. This was down from a week ago at the same time when there were 33,500 protesters out on the streets, 2,200 of which were in Paris.

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Syndicat France Police officers angry

Estimate of participation in the act 6 Vests yellow at 19:00: at least 300,000 protesters throughout the hexagon according to the estimate of the union France Police - Angry police.

Among an ultra-majority of peaceful protesters, hundreds of infiltrators make law enforcement operations very complex at this time.

On several occasions, the thugs have seriously attacked our colleagues, forcing them to take their service weapons out of the case to defend themselves. Again, colleagues could have used fire in self-defense. They made the choice to endanger their lives to protect those of thugs.

The arrest of Eric Drouet, rue Vignon in Paris, was clearly planned and ordered by the administrative or judicial authority.

Our colleagues have not questioned this leader leader yellow vests.

At this stage, there is no link between the thugs and the arrest of Eric Drouet for our trade union organization.

Many of you are contacting us for explanations on this arrest. As it stands, our trade union organization has no legal element to explain this inquiry. No need to call us.

* Our police union has no connection with Eric Drouet.

* The images embedded in this article are illustrative images that do not reflect our count.

* Our union does not circulate fake news contrary to what some dishonest media convey. We are the 5th trade union force of the Ministry of the Interior and produce sincere and honest work to inform our colleagues and public opinion on police issues.
 
When I had passed my final exam on pruning and tree care. There was a journalist to do a photo article for the local newspaper.
The next day we all laughed, not at small details or misunderstandings, we all wondered if the journalist could count in meters, so the trees that didn't exceed 25 meters, made more than 40 meters, our little jumps of frogs from one branch to another, were space jumps...

So I will put here another perspective of this story "of the three motorcyclists of the Champs Elysées", if it is not already posted.
And you would tell me, why, you have to be suspicious of a single sequence, and try to have the context to better observe and see certain things.

Mobilisation des Policiers en Colère (MPC)/Mobilization of Angry Police Officers
🚔🇫🇫🇷 On the eve of the Christmas holidays, you will not have missed this video of our fellow motorcyclists from the 75 Intervention and Security Company who are being attacked by a horde of angry and bloodthirsty individuals. 🔥

➡️ These images have toured the media and the web, with sometimes - too often - hateful comments probably related to ignorance for some and stupidity for others.

📌 The MPC association wants to be, by these few lines and this video, a teacher and will try to explain to you in simple words what happened.

🔴 First, no action by our colleagues can minimize and justify the violence they have courageously faced. We cannot justify the unjustifiable.

🔴 Secondly, please be aware that any lethal or intermediate force weapons used by law enforcement agencies are used in the strict application of self-defence and in a defined employment procedure.

🔴 Thirdly, we would like to give our full support to our fellow motorcyclists, so that they know that our door is open to them when they need it, that we feel a shameless admiration and deep respect for their undeniable composure and professionalism.

🔴 Fourthly, we are offended that, in the face of a scene of rare violence, our administration had no other immediate response than to refer the matter to the General Inspectorate of the National Police so that the latter could open an investigation against our colleagues.
➡️ This is, once again, a poor way to show support and gratitude to its field staff. Employees who, let us not forget, have just gone through very trying weeks, not to mention their hours and with unfailing dedication to this same administration.
⚠️ The day we are well aware of the psycho-social risks facing our profession, this action, beyond clumsiness, is almost insulting and guilt-ridden for our colleagues.
It is all too sad to remind you that we are the trade most affected by suicide.

📛 We therefore invite you all to be clear-sighted, to step back, to evaluate the context in which our colleagues were operating last Saturday, and above all to see the human being hiding under the uniform. The one made of flesh and blood, the one who was almost wounded or dead, the one who was afraid not to go home that night to kiss his wife and kids, the one who had a quarter of a second to think when his gun came out.

Motards de la Police agressés sur les Champs-Elysées : l’association Mobilisation des Policiers en Colère décrypte ce qu’il s’est réellement passé

I Imagine as one can be disguised in cop, one can be also disguised in yellow vest.
And the both disguised do not mean well to the yellow vests movement or the French police officers.
 
Of course, it is always important to multiply the points of view to form the least false opinion possible, but we can edit the film as much as we want, it will not change the situation because even if everyone (demonstrators and police officers) is dissatisfied with the authorities - which remains to be proven in the acts as far as the police or army are concerned - some are there to change the established order, and the others to maintain and defend it.

The savagery is not only on one side, we have seen many videos of police violences that are no more excusable than the acts of some people wearing or not wearing the yellow vest. The "dégage vieille truie !"("go away old sow !") sequence is worthy of the worst suburban scum, and yet it comes from guys in uniform: so, tell me where are the good guys?

If there are really angry humans under the uniforms, they are the ones who need to know who and what they are angry at.
 
It looks like they're good, bad, and ugly, an even weird guys on both side, but still guys...

(...) we can edit the film as much as we want, it will not change the situation because even if everyone (demonstrators and police officers) is dissatisfied with the authorities - which remains to be proven in the acts as far as the police or army are concerned - some are there to change the established order, and the others to maintain and defend it
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If there are really angry humans under the uniforms, they are the ones who need to know who and what they are angry at.
This is an important point, and precisely not focusing on a plan can allow us to see what "our" gourvernants would like to see happen.
That the yellows and blues ( police), as in a war, or a simple fight, that your emotions added to a hostile climate take over at the expense of what is right, and that because your camp has been attacked, it requires "revenge" or retaliation much more violent and bloody than a human being would want, but is capable of it.
For the moment we can still reverse the two colors, or even mix them.
It's a green stuff, but it's divided into yellow and blue.
The real threat is those who want to paint a division board, but also the other real threat would be that this "breakage" would occur and that there is no return point.
 
I would rather think it backwards: the police forces are obviously on the side of the state, even accepting that their mission goes beyond policing, and includes tax collection. Indeed, everybody knows that the collection of parking fines in cities and speeding in the countryside have nothing to do with road safety, and everything to do with hidden taxs.

It’s funny to consider that the gendarmerie corps was initially created to prevent travellers from being robbed by highway bandits, and that today they are robbed on the roads by the gendarmes themselves who hide to better trap them.

Another reason for public dissatisfaction has been the development of collusion between police officers and judicial officers (bailiffs or auctioneers) in order to make abusive seizures at appropriate times, when people are not at home. I know this because I was a victim myself. As if by chance, small valuable items (gold sylo, Dupont lighter, collector's books, small works of art, etc.) or even more substantial objects such as armchairs, are removed without being mentioned in the notice of seizure, and are therefore irrecoverable: it is pure and simple theft organised by sworn persons. The public prosecutor to whom I filed a complaint told me himself: "Yes, we know this auctioneer, there are more than 200 complaints against him, but none have ever been successful and his misdeeds continue. ».

There is also fraud on guardianship, which amounts to hundreds of millions of euros. Fragile people, elderly or sick, are declared "irresponsible". Their property is therefore administered by guardianship officers, even in cases where there is still family. People are placed in institutions (psychology or retirement), and their assets are sold in judicial sales (i.e. at a quarter of the value). There are an incredible number of lawsuits underway to recover, if not these assets, at least the amount of sales. The scam is monumental in scale and again, it is only a collusion of sworn individuals, from the Ministry of Justice and the National Police.

There are some of the many reasons why the French do not like their police because they have understood, even if there are honest police officers (generally powerless to act for the common good) that they were not there to protect them but to steal them in many ways.

So nothing is green in this story: separation is a factual situation. This separation was even accentuated by the creation by General DeGaule of the CRS (Compagnie Républicaine de Sécurité), which are just normal police officers, but better paid and better equipped to go to conflict. If you tell them: "hit hard," the guys do it without any hesitation. The episode "Get out of here, you old pig!" (again) also shows that the authorities have no problem with enlisting very suspicious guys. It is even to wonder if they are not looking for them in prisons.

So, everyone is free to take a "teddy bear" attitude, and think that the flower-power could fix everything, but I'm afraid it won’t be a very accurate reflection of reality.
 
I am agree with what you say about the justice and police institutions, and also the times when I have dealt with the police for assault, theft, investigation following a family death, I have always had a bitter taste, and a feeling of incompleteness, and that the real culprits will always remain unpunished protected by these same laws supposedly protecting us justly.

Two-measure justice is manufactured against us, looks at the appearance trials and immediate effect against some yellow vests.

In the field the CRS will do what they are trained to do, but as long as the powder is not up their nose, they will still strike hard in their work, but can still in some situations choose the least destructive.

it is normal to be "green with rage/vert de rage" and not want to be a teddy bear, and also to see beyond our little personal misadventures for the well-being of all without being a "blue flower/sentimental".


to be green with rage/ être vert de rage:
A familiar expression that refers to the origins of medicine and the fact that anger was associated with the gallbladder. From the Latin cholera, anger meant excess bile. The bile being greenish in colour, this gave rise to the expression being green with anger and then green with rage.

To be a blue flower/être fleur bleue:
It is necessary to go back to 1811 and to a work by the young German writer Novalis, who was in fact Baron Friedrich von Hardenberg, to find the origin of this expression.
In his unfinished novel "Henri d'Ofterdingen" (Novalis died at the age of 29), he evokes in his own way the legend of a medieval troubadour who, in search of an ideal, discovered the blue flower, symbol of poetry.
The Germans also speak of "die blaue Blume der Romantik" or "the blue flower of romanticism".


While crossing the Rhine, the blue flower has changed its meaning a little, since poetry has been associated with a mixed sentimentality of naivety.
DeepL.

The reality is that we are living in an Orwellian Time.
And without collective awakening, there is no freedom.
 

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