Do some French people see what's going on? Yellow Vest Protests
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Divide by Zero
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Truthstream Media happened to be in Paris at the time and noticed something familiar.
People setting cars on fire, without police stopping them. Then, the police ignore it for quite a while, letting it burn and then at the end putting out the fires.
Meanwhile they go ahead and attack the peaceful protestors with tear gas etc.
Exactly the same crap that happened at the WTO protest, etc. Make it look like mayhem and rioting in order to discredit the movement.
People setting cars on fire, without police stopping them. Then, the police ignore it for quite a while, letting it burn and then at the end putting out the fires.
Meanwhile they go ahead and attack the peaceful protestors with tear gas etc.
Exactly the same crap that happened at the WTO protest, etc. Make it look like mayhem and rioting in order to discredit the movement.
Gwelan (too)
Jedi
the vice is tightened on Macron
According to Mediapart, Alexandre Benalla, who was dismissed this summer by the Elysée, has continued to use a diplomatic passport in recent weeks, which he enjoyed when he worked at Emmanuel Macron's firm. This passport has been "used in recent weeks to enter various African countries as well as Israel", according to the online media, which cites "security sources".
However, during his sworn hearing before the Senate Committee of Inquiry on 19 September, Alexandre Benalla said he had left this document in his Elysée office.
When asked at the time by Senator Les Républicains Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio about whether he had returned his two passports, the 27-year-old former councillor replied: "They are in the office I occupied at the Elysée, so I think the Elysée had to take care of them", according to the video of the hearing broadcast by the Public Sénat.
The Quai d'Orsay demanded at the end of July the return of the two diplomatic passports allocated to Alexandre Benalla in the context of his duties at the Elysée, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told AFP, suggesting that these documents have not yet been submitted.
"In view of press reports suggesting that Mr Benalla continued to use these documents", the Quai d'Orsay "is examining the action to be taken, including judicial action", according to the Ministry.
Well, you can talk to the governor, talk to a prince
Talk to a preacher or the president
Some people lie, some people lie and deceive
When they say one thing, they mean something else completely
JJ Cale
According to Mediapart, Alexandre Benalla, who was dismissed this summer by the Elysée, has continued to use a diplomatic passport in recent weeks, which he enjoyed when he worked at Emmanuel Macron's firm. This passport has been "used in recent weeks to enter various African countries as well as Israel", according to the online media, which cites "security sources".
However, during his sworn hearing before the Senate Committee of Inquiry on 19 September, Alexandre Benalla said he had left this document in his Elysée office.
When asked at the time by Senator Les Républicains Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio about whether he had returned his two passports, the 27-year-old former councillor replied: "They are in the office I occupied at the Elysée, so I think the Elysée had to take care of them", according to the video of the hearing broadcast by the Public Sénat.
The Quai d'Orsay demanded at the end of July the return of the two diplomatic passports allocated to Alexandre Benalla in the context of his duties at the Elysée, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told AFP, suggesting that these documents have not yet been submitted.
"In view of press reports suggesting that Mr Benalla continued to use these documents", the Quai d'Orsay "is examining the action to be taken, including judicial action", according to the Ministry.
Well, you can talk to the governor, talk to a prince
Talk to a preacher or the president
Some people lie, some people lie and deceive
When they say one thing, they mean something else completely
JJ Cale
Gwelan (too)
Jedi
These little sentences that gradually forged the divorce of the French from their rulers.
The "toothless". The expression still does not pass. According to the testimony of Valérie Trierweiler, published in her book "Merci pour ce moment", these are the words of President Holland to describe the poor. She writes that he "presented himself as the man who does not love the rich. In reality, the president does not like the poor. Continuing: "He, the man on the left, says in private: "the toothless" very proud of his humor."
Catched by the tax authorities for defrauding by underestimating his fortune, Macron » had a jacket cut on social networks » for answering the caller who asked him for accounts: "The best way to buy a nice suit is to work".
Emmanuel Macron has multiplied this type of abrupt statement. Last November, he defended the company Uber, which hires but offers salaries below the minimum wage, by weighing this job against drug trafficking in the suburbs: "Go to Stains (in Seine-Saint-Denis) and explain to the young people who voluntarily work as a Uber's driver that it is better to be a dealer".
Emmanuel Macron stumbles as he tries to "name things". This was already the case on 17 September 2014, in one of his first public speeches. He then described the workers at the slaughterhouse in Gad, Finistère, as "illiterate". if he had fully assumed his exit on "the lazy ones" during a speech delivered in Athens.In the afternoon, he admitted to using an "extremely hurtful" term and apologized "flatly" to the National Assembly.
"A station is a place where you meet successful people and people who are nothing." This short sentence by Emmanuel Macron, delivered in a speech without a note and obviously improvised, is undoubtedly a clumsiness of language that is in no way comparable to the expression "without teeth" attributed to the former Head of State. However, it reveals a hidden truth, an ulterior motive that says a lot about the President of the Republic and his language habits - which are also and above all habits of thought. And it is not insignificant that it was delivered in front of an audience of entrepreneurs and "startupers", in a place financed by the billionaire Xavier Niel.
At a meeting in Lille on Saturday, January 14, Emmanuel Macron spoke at length about the social issue. "At the risk of shocking some,[I want] to face the great misery that has settled in these battlegrounds," Part of the problem, according to the candidate? The laziness of some unemployed people! "I no longer want to hear "I still have the right to stay a little bit unemployed" or "nothing is being offered" he said, insinuating that he regularly heard this kind of indolence. (While in reality, the fraud rate is barely 0.2%).
In the middle of the Benalla affair, Emmanuel Macron wanted to reassure his majority. On 24 July, in front of the deputies of the moving Republic (LREM), at the Maison de l'Amérique Latine in Paris, the President assumed the recruitment of Alexandre Benalla, the Elysée adviser accused of posing as a police officer and committing violence on 1 May. Speaking in the third person, Emmanuel Macron challenged all his opponents: "If they want a leader, he is in front of you. Have them come and get him. I answer the French people [...]. I was the one who trusted Alexander Benalla.". Obviously, some French people try every Saturday to pick him up, but they have been somewhat prevented from doing so so so far.
On 29 August, during an official visit to Denmark, the French President was certainly touched by the Danish people, the "Lutheran people", who were open to change. Seeing that his reforms were rather unpopular in France, Emmanuel Macron then compared the French to "Gauls who were resistant to change". A small spade against his own compatriots who quickly created a controversy. Emmanuel Macron had to justify himself on August 30 from Helsinki, Finland, at a press conference to reaffirm his love for his compatriots and French culture, while defending himself from any contempt.
Shortly after the Danish buzz, Emmanuel Macron did it again, this time in France for the Heritage Days on September 15. Emmanuel Macron exchanged with an unemployed horticulturist in the courtyard of the Elysée. The head of state advised him to change his path because, in "hotels, cafés, restaurants, buildings, there is not a place where... they do not say they are looking for people". Emmanuel Macron even turned into a Pôle emploi advisor by offering to accompany him: "I cross the street, I get you a job.
The resignation of Nicolas Hulot, Minister of Ecological Transition, announced on August 28 was not without its upheavals. At the microphone of France Inter, Nicolas Hulot had complained about "the presence of lobbies in power circles".
The leader of the MPs of La République en marche, Gilles Le Gendre, tried to analyze the yellow vest movement. On Public Sénat, on December 17, the elected representative of Paris judged that the members of the executive had "probably been too intelligent, too subtle, too technical" in concocting these measures without explaining them sufficiently to the citizens. As his remarks provoked a wave of reactions, Gilles Le Gendre then said "sorry" and mentioned "a few words taken out of context". Nevertheless, within the majority, his colleagues were equally critical of comments that were clearly not taken out of context.
In the midst of the Yellow Vests movement, the high school students also mobilized in several places, their mobilizations sometimes enamelled with violence. Invited to the Cnews and Europe 1 set to discuss the controversial arrest of high school students in Mantes-la-Jolie, the former socialist presidential candidate Ségolène Royal assumed that she was "on the side of those who are restoring security". She even went against the current of most of the left by outraging the "savageries" caused by some young people in the city of Yvelines. "It didn't hurt them to know what policing is, the police, to keep quiet. It'll make them remember." "It's not bad for giving them a sense of reality," she added.
Stay with us to follow these adventures because, no doubt, the same players will shoot again
The "toothless". The expression still does not pass. According to the testimony of Valérie Trierweiler, published in her book "Merci pour ce moment", these are the words of President Holland to describe the poor. She writes that he "presented himself as the man who does not love the rich. In reality, the president does not like the poor. Continuing: "He, the man on the left, says in private: "the toothless" very proud of his humor."
Catched by the tax authorities for defrauding by underestimating his fortune, Macron » had a jacket cut on social networks » for answering the caller who asked him for accounts: "The best way to buy a nice suit is to work".
Emmanuel Macron has multiplied this type of abrupt statement. Last November, he defended the company Uber, which hires but offers salaries below the minimum wage, by weighing this job against drug trafficking in the suburbs: "Go to Stains (in Seine-Saint-Denis) and explain to the young people who voluntarily work as a Uber's driver that it is better to be a dealer".
Emmanuel Macron stumbles as he tries to "name things". This was already the case on 17 September 2014, in one of his first public speeches. He then described the workers at the slaughterhouse in Gad, Finistère, as "illiterate". if he had fully assumed his exit on "the lazy ones" during a speech delivered in Athens.In the afternoon, he admitted to using an "extremely hurtful" term and apologized "flatly" to the National Assembly.
"A station is a place where you meet successful people and people who are nothing." This short sentence by Emmanuel Macron, delivered in a speech without a note and obviously improvised, is undoubtedly a clumsiness of language that is in no way comparable to the expression "without teeth" attributed to the former Head of State. However, it reveals a hidden truth, an ulterior motive that says a lot about the President of the Republic and his language habits - which are also and above all habits of thought. And it is not insignificant that it was delivered in front of an audience of entrepreneurs and "startupers", in a place financed by the billionaire Xavier Niel.
At a meeting in Lille on Saturday, January 14, Emmanuel Macron spoke at length about the social issue. "At the risk of shocking some,[I want] to face the great misery that has settled in these battlegrounds," Part of the problem, according to the candidate? The laziness of some unemployed people! "I no longer want to hear "I still have the right to stay a little bit unemployed" or "nothing is being offered" he said, insinuating that he regularly heard this kind of indolence. (While in reality, the fraud rate is barely 0.2%).
In the middle of the Benalla affair, Emmanuel Macron wanted to reassure his majority. On 24 July, in front of the deputies of the moving Republic (LREM), at the Maison de l'Amérique Latine in Paris, the President assumed the recruitment of Alexandre Benalla, the Elysée adviser accused of posing as a police officer and committing violence on 1 May. Speaking in the third person, Emmanuel Macron challenged all his opponents: "If they want a leader, he is in front of you. Have them come and get him. I answer the French people [...]. I was the one who trusted Alexander Benalla.". Obviously, some French people try every Saturday to pick him up, but they have been somewhat prevented from doing so so so far.
On 29 August, during an official visit to Denmark, the French President was certainly touched by the Danish people, the "Lutheran people", who were open to change. Seeing that his reforms were rather unpopular in France, Emmanuel Macron then compared the French to "Gauls who were resistant to change". A small spade against his own compatriots who quickly created a controversy. Emmanuel Macron had to justify himself on August 30 from Helsinki, Finland, at a press conference to reaffirm his love for his compatriots and French culture, while defending himself from any contempt.
Shortly after the Danish buzz, Emmanuel Macron did it again, this time in France for the Heritage Days on September 15. Emmanuel Macron exchanged with an unemployed horticulturist in the courtyard of the Elysée. The head of state advised him to change his path because, in "hotels, cafés, restaurants, buildings, there is not a place where... they do not say they are looking for people". Emmanuel Macron even turned into a Pôle emploi advisor by offering to accompany him: "I cross the street, I get you a job.
The resignation of Nicolas Hulot, Minister of Ecological Transition, announced on August 28 was not without its upheavals. At the microphone of France Inter, Nicolas Hulot had complained about "the presence of lobbies in power circles".
The leader of the MPs of La République en marche, Gilles Le Gendre, tried to analyze the yellow vest movement. On Public Sénat, on December 17, the elected representative of Paris judged that the members of the executive had "probably been too intelligent, too subtle, too technical" in concocting these measures without explaining them sufficiently to the citizens. As his remarks provoked a wave of reactions, Gilles Le Gendre then said "sorry" and mentioned "a few words taken out of context". Nevertheless, within the majority, his colleagues were equally critical of comments that were clearly not taken out of context.
In the midst of the Yellow Vests movement, the high school students also mobilized in several places, their mobilizations sometimes enamelled with violence. Invited to the Cnews and Europe 1 set to discuss the controversial arrest of high school students in Mantes-la-Jolie, the former socialist presidential candidate Ségolène Royal assumed that she was "on the side of those who are restoring security". She even went against the current of most of the left by outraging the "savageries" caused by some young people in the city of Yvelines. "It didn't hurt them to know what policing is, the police, to keep quiet. It'll make them remember." "It's not bad for giving them a sense of reality," she added.
Stay with us to follow these adventures because, no doubt, the same players will shoot again
isparnid
Jedi Council Member
Here is some interesting informations from the site "Syndicat France Police - Policiers en colère" which presents itself as "Syndicat de police. Ministry of the Interior. Fifth largest trade union power in the Ministry of the Interior and first opposition force in the National Police! 100% Independent 100% Independent 100% Autonomous 100% Coportist 100% Apolitical 100% Patriot 100% Contested 100% Contested 100%" (I believe there are about 14 trade union organizations in the national police force).
Of course everyone will make their own opinion because on the net we can see that it is the war between the various police unions and misinformation can be a tool, but I found the two related articles quite well documented and argued:
Police violence and yellow vests: untangling the real from the fake while dozens of IGPN proceedings are open (27 December 2018)
Clearly, they accuse the chain of command of ordering the use of violence against YVs when this was not the case in previous much more violent situations:
Estimated participation in act 6 of the Yellow Vests at 7pm: at least 300,000 demonstrators throughout France according to the estimate of the France Police - Angry Police officers union (22 December 2018)
Two pieces of information that are relevant in this single article:
1 - This union estimates the number of YVs at 300,000 for Act 6! vs. 38600 for the Ministry of the Interior (282,000 on November 17).
2 - Eric Drouet's arrest was clearly planned and ordered by the administrative or judicial authority. But I think we all saw that with the blockade of rue Vignon.
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Of course everyone will make their own opinion because on the net we can see that it is the war between the various police unions and misinformation can be a tool, but I found the two related articles quite well documented and argued:
Police violence and yellow vests: untangling the real from the fake while dozens of IGPN proceedings are open (27 December 2018)
Clearly, they accuse the chain of command of ordering the use of violence against YVs when this was not the case in previous much more violent situations:
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Estimated participation in act 6 of the Yellow Vests at 7pm: at least 300,000 demonstrators throughout France according to the estimate of the France Police - Angry Police officers union (22 December 2018)
Two pieces of information that are relevant in this single article:
1 - This union estimates the number of YVs at 300,000 for Act 6! vs. 38600 for the Ministry of the Interior (282,000 on November 17).
2 - Eric Drouet's arrest was clearly planned and ordered by the administrative or judicial authority. But I think we all saw that with the blockade of rue Vignon.
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Adaryn
The Living Force
Angry about being accused of anti-Semitism, several yellow vests block the printing of Ouest France newspaper
Several editions of newspapers of the Ouest-France group could not be distributed on 27 December after Yellow vests blocked trucks leaving a printing house in Loire-Atlantique. They blame the media for its coverage of the social movement.
Are the yellow vests mad at the Ouest-France group? Demonstrators claiming to be part of the social movement "blocked the exit of trucks in which newspapers that were already printed were packed", as reported on 27 December by Philippe Boissonnat, deputy editor-in-chief of Ouest-France and editor-in-chief.
The day before, at around 11.30 pm, "about twenty demonstrators" showed up in front of the Chevrolière printing house, south of Nantes.
According to a statement from Ouest-France, the YVs were "dissatisfied with the coverage of the movement" by the press group, "deploring the fact that some Yellow Vests have been accused of anti-Semitism following the [fake => see the debunking here] incidents that occurred during the weekend".
The number of newspaper copies that could not be distributed was 180,000. Several titles and editions were affected: Ouest-France (Loire-Atlantique and Vendée editions), Le Courrier de l'Ouest (Deux-Sèvres edition), and Presse-Océan (Loire-Atlantique). In response, all the affected editions were put online free of charge. According to Ouest-France, this is the first time since the yellow vest movement began on 17 November that the group's newspapers have been targeted.
While the relationship between some yellow vests and the press is not good, the group has announced lawsuits. "We'll file a complaint later today. We strongly condemn this offence against press freedom and for preventing people from learning about what is happening around them."
Adaryn
The Living Force
Var region: 40 "yellow vests" tried to enter the Fort of Brégançon
On Thursday, a group of about 40 "yellow vests" tried to access the holiday residence of the heads of state, reports Var-Matin.
They had arranged to meet via the FB group "Today, we will take the fort of Brégançon". Some 40 "yellow vests" have tried to access the Fort of Brégançon, a holiday resort for the presidents of the Republic, reports Var-Matin.
This information was also confirmed by François Arizzi, mayor of Bormes-les-Mimosas. The demonstrators met on Thursday at 3.30 pm in the Var municipality before driving to the presidential residence, under the supervision of the police. As they approached the fort on the D42d, a gendarmerie roadblock had been installed.
Blocked, the "yellow vests" decided to disperse and walk to the Fort of Brégançon via the beach or the woods. About a hundred metres from the entrance, there again, gendarmes were waiting for them. The demonstrators finally turned back at around 6 p.m. after several minutes of dialogue with the police.
While the strong police presence for the "yellow vests" suggested that Emmanuel Macron was on site, the mayor of Bormes-les-Mimosas said that the fort was currently vacant. The Elysée did not wish to communicate as to the destination of the Macron couple for the Christmas holidays. The "yellow vests" have indicated that they intend to return in the coming days.
On Thursday, a group of about 40 "yellow vests" tried to access the holiday residence of the heads of state, reports Var-Matin.
They had arranged to meet via the FB group "Today, we will take the fort of Brégançon". Some 40 "yellow vests" have tried to access the Fort of Brégançon, a holiday resort for the presidents of the Republic, reports Var-Matin.
This information was also confirmed by François Arizzi, mayor of Bormes-les-Mimosas. The demonstrators met on Thursday at 3.30 pm in the Var municipality before driving to the presidential residence, under the supervision of the police. As they approached the fort on the D42d, a gendarmerie roadblock had been installed.
Blocked, the "yellow vests" decided to disperse and walk to the Fort of Brégançon via the beach or the woods. About a hundred metres from the entrance, there again, gendarmes were waiting for them. The demonstrators finally turned back at around 6 p.m. after several minutes of dialogue with the police.
While the strong police presence for the "yellow vests" suggested that Emmanuel Macron was on site, the mayor of Bormes-les-Mimosas said that the fort was currently vacant. The Elysée did not wish to communicate as to the destination of the Macron couple for the Christmas holidays. The "yellow vests" have indicated that they intend to return in the coming days.
It reminds me the tweet posted in one paper on SOTT.fr which said YV have been accused to be extrem right-wing, then vandals, then russian spies, now anti-semitists, when will it be some extraterrestrial invasion
angelburst29
The Living Force
December 17, 2018 - Gilets Jaunes: The End of Dystopia
<i>Gilets Jaunes</i>: the end of dystopia
The French are the best. The men don’t get fat. The women don’t sleep alone. The kids are well-behaved. They have the best architecture, the best way of living, best bread, best wine, best olive oil, best cooking, some of the best writing, films, painting, poetry, perfume – and women. They also excel in revolutions. Each revolution of theirs is a peach, perfect, round and juicy. They open a new epoch for mankind.
Just thinking of a French revolution makes me feel young, for I remember the previous one, in May 1968, and it was a beauty, the revolution of Forbidden to Forbid.
It ushered us into the short-living paradise of permissible. Believe it or not, we could freely flirt with the opposite sex, we could smoke in the pubs and cafés, we could have a drink and drive. We could rent a room for small price, and roam Europe for $5 a day. Workers weren’t fired, jobs were aplenty, there were no one-year contracts, parking was free and gasoline cheap. Oh yes, and the cotton was high.
Previously, the world had been hard, cold and rigid – more or less the way it is now, with prohibitions overtaking permissions. Half a century had passed since then, and the world is ripe for a new French revolution – and it came, the GJ rising. And in time for Christmas, making it an excellent gift for us all.
The French people said Non to prosperity for the rich and austerity for the rest, to dismantling of the social state, to privatizations, to wars abroad, to mass migration – to all these plagues unloaded upon civilized and advanced West for last thirty years.
The revolt is not over. Don’t get discouraged by a few setbacks. Like a bonfire, popular uprisings burn unevenly. Now they burst out, in a few days they appear extinguished, and suddenly flare up again. This is the case with the GJ uprising. It is impossible to predict what will happen next. Even if repressions, mass arrests, propaganda and armored cars will help the Macron regime to hold on for a while, the bell rang: the end of the bankers’ plan to tighten our belts, and to grow their triple chin is nigh. After all, the final elimination of the old feudal order took place many years after the shining example of 1789 Revolution.
Paris sets fashion; their infrequent rebellions define humanity’s future. In 1789 rebellious Parisians buried the Ancien Régime, proclaimed democracy, liberty, equality and fraternity. In 1848 the rebellious Parisians started the Spring of Nations, the great pan-European revolution. In 1871 the Paris Commune became a forerunner of all socialist revolutions. Two world wars, the massive bloodletting of Verdun and Nazi occupation had kept the people of Paris in survival mode, and the next revolution came only in 1968. And now, in 2018, the Parisians put an end to the radical neoliberal project of enslaving humanity.
The usual suspects have already accused Putin’s Russia of fomenting the Paris uprising. The BBC has been caught in flagrante – they asked their stringer in Paris to find a Russian connection, a Russian businessman, or anything Russian to blame the events on the Russians and delegitimize them. This correspondence has been leaked, and the Russian MFA complained about it.
I’d be glad and proud if such an accusation had at least some basis. Alas, it is not the case. Russians did not support any French revolution ever, from 1789 to 1968. Now, too, the official Moscow does not intervene in internal affairs of other states as a matter of principle. Russia has not yet condemned the brutal suppression of the uprising and the arrests of schoolchildren, though Beijing and Teheran did.
The Russian social networks and public organizations are suspicious of the French rising. After the trauma of Kiev Maidan-2014, the Russians had been hit by conspiracy paranoia and they are seeing manipulations of the State Department in everything. In the Russian media, the events in Paris are often described as “pogroms”; their main Channel One even made a point to show sympathetically a French Jewish real estate dealer whose office had been rampaged. Their wonderful RT does provide great coverage of the French events, but the RT does not broadcast in Russian and in Russia.
Alexander Dugin, the maverick Russian thinker, astutely suggested that the enemy does not believe in Russian involvement, whether in the US elections, or in the GJ rising, but it uses Russia as a marker of hostile force. He identifies the enemy as the shadow World Government, the force that aims to rule the world behind and above national governments. The very existence of this force has been vehemently denied, but now it manifested itself in running a smear campaign against Jeremy Corbyn, the British Labour leader. The campaign was managed by a secretive Integrity Initiative; its existence has been disclosed by Anonymous hackers. This body, ostensibly run by British secret service, included some writers of the Guardian (Luke Harding etc) who were suspected of working for MI6. They attacked Julian Assange, they attacked me personally, but according to the hackers’ disclosure, they were supposed to go after Russia.
While going after Russia sounds legit – that is what the intelligence services are for, – fighting against and smearing the Her Majesty’s Opposition Leader Rt Hon Jeremy Corbyn, PC MP is not. Dugin says they created the myth of “Putin’s Russia as an absolute and unconditional enemy, embodying pure world evil” though they are aware that Russia’s involvement beyond its borders is almost non-existent.
“The World Government is clearly aware that with all its power, a serious opponent is about to appear – not so much even from the outside (from Russia or China), but from within. Russia is here only a marker and the easiest way to discredit and demonize these alternative trends. This applies to European populism (both left and right), the anti-globalist government of Italy, the GJ of France, the fighters against capitalism and mass immigration”.
This technique of using a marker to create “guilt by association” has been practiced for years. And as the old markers of “Nazis” and “antisemites” get worn and torn, a new marker of evil Russia has been employed against the GJ.
No worry, the old markers still work! BHL (as the French call Bernard-Henri Lévy, their chief TV pundit and the never-failing voice of the Masters of Discourse) who approved of the rebels in Libya, Syria and Kiev, has already condemned the Parisian uprising and called the rebels – Nazis. He noticed supporters of Le Pen and of Mélenchon among the Vests, and this is no good!
However, the people of France were not afraid of this label. 75-80% of the people believe the GJ are right. (Probably we shall see soon a group of Jews for GJ, quipped Gilad Atzmon, for these excellent people like to have a finger in every pie, while keeping themselves separate.)
The revolution–1968 had been derailed because of their leaders’ sell-out. Danny the Red, or Daniel Cohn-Bendit had been one of the traitors, as I wrote after meeting him some years ago. The GJ movement has no HQ, no party, no leadership, and that’s why the regime did not manage to bribe and intimidate their leaders or to make a deal with their party, as the neoliberals have worked this technique to perfection over the past 50 years.
The GJ is a native French movement, mainly middle class, of people who live in small towns and villages. It is real France, not recent immigrants, and this real France had been pushed to precarious instability of being unable to have their ends meet. The very rich have it too good; they pay no, or little taxes, and the government is doing everything for them, at the expense of the once strong middle class. Such a middle class movement is a real thing; its participants are not likely to be tricked and they can insist on their agenda.
After the first successes of the movement, the political parties began to show interest. Le Pen could be a natural to support the movement of native French people, but Marine had recently lost the national elections to Macron, and her movement feels hurt and vulnerable. More importantly, Le Pen concentrated on immigration, a side issue for GJ. The GJ do not want to fight Arab and African immigrants; their problem is with the neoliberal government, while migration is just one of the neoliberal tools. That’s why, despite BHL’s claims, Le Pen’s party has no strong position among the protesters.
The Americans may learn from this experience. Immigration is a good topic for publicity, but it’s not likely to lead to big social changes. Yes, the GJ oppose mass migration and want to terminate it, but they balance this demand with another one: stop robbing Africa. Indeed, Africa is going from bad to worse because it has been exploited by the developed countries. The balance of payments between Africa and France favours France, and this is the main reason for African migration to France. The Africans just follow their money.
If the American populists were to adopt a similar demand, they should balance their desire for the wall and no immigration by calling the US companies to stop pumping profits from Latin America. Noam Chomsky correctly stated that Central Americans won’t run to the US if the US wouldn’t destabilize their countries for profit. Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador—three countries that have been under harsh U.S. domination, supply the most of refugees knocking at the US door.
This is true for Europe and the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) states, as well. If Europeans would not bomb Libya and undermine Syria, if the US would not invade Iraq, there would be no refugees, no immigrants, legal or illegal. The GJ gave us a lesson how to treat the immigration problem. The profit of invasions goes to the rich, while the middle classes suffer the consequences of mass migration.
Another correction of the Trump agenda has been suggested by Ron Unz. Trump is putting a lot of effort into stopping illegal migration and refugees from Latin America. He should read Ron Unz who proved with numbers that the real problem is not illegal but legal immigration running too high.
American legal immigration levels have been far too high for many years with net legal immigration been running at a million or more a year, and it should be sharply reduced. Trump’s focus on illegal immigration makes no sense at all.
There is little difference between legal and illegal immigrants, they are quite the same, there are just too many of them. And legal immigration can be stopped right away, without a wall.
The immigrants’ participation in the GJ rising has been quite small. Their underclass used the revolt to break shops’ windows and loot, yes, but they didn’t fight police. And the police, on their side, didn’t fight the looters. The government apparently instigated the looters and instructed the police to allow them to do their worst, while MSM used it to condemn the GJ as vandals. The mainstream media is strongly against the GJ, and it took me an effort to find a video neutral or sympathetic to the protesters. You may watch it with English subtitles here and see for yourself that the protesters are similar to you.
I am not horrified by some broken windows. On ne saurait faire d’omelette sans casser des œufs, you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs, as a French royalist famously said in 1796. The general de Charette broke heads, not eggs nor windows, and he was executed when caught, but he was still correct. Without some impressive violence, things can’t change. If you just stand in the square and sing a nice song, or if you march down the street shouting this or that, you will achieve nothing. The government loves people singing and marching for climate change or for gay equality. You should know that people are doing a right thing if police attacks them and they defend themselves valiantly.
The Bolsheviks used the battleship Aurora to make their statement. Her salvo in view of the royal palace proved their ability and readiness for violence; they had armed soldiers and sailors to take over the centres of power including banks, post and telegraph offices, and railway stations. At the occasion, windows were broken and people were robbed; this is unfortunate but otherwise, you can’t make an omelette.
During the French Spring, the French marched in their hundreds of thousands in biggest and most peaceful demos Paris ever knew. The government disregarded it completely. The protest has to be violent and sustainable to get somewhere. Only after four rather violent weekends, Macron deigned to respond, and he has met some demands of the GJ – an extra hundred euro for low-paid workers, no tax on the annual bonus or on overtime, no gas price rise. It was a step in the right direction. 16 million middle-class French will enjoy the fruits of Macron’s forced benevolence; it will cost 12 billion euro – a good Christmas present for hard-working people, and proof that violence works.
The American nationalist right is too law-abiding to achieve anything. They used some non-institutionalised violence against blacks, and even that was long time ago. They collect a lot of weapons but never use them against hard targets. They have lost their will to fight. Probably they won’t even defend their President Trump if he were to be removed from power. They have to join forces with some dynamic blacks who aren’t afraid to disobey authority, but for that, they must understand that their enemy is the liberal establishment, not the blacks or immigrants. The French far right had concentrated on the immigrants for too long a time, and failed to take a place and lead the protests.
So much about the far right. What about the left? Mélenchon has many supporters among the GJ, but he is perceived as connected with the party that discredited itself while Hollande was in power. All major mainstream parties – whether nominally left or right, in Paris, Berlin, or London – acted the same and carried out the same neoliberal agenda. That’s why people voted for Macron who promised to be different – but it turned out he was not different at all. There is just one agenda, just one direction – the direction to the neoliberal state ruining middle classes. A new force is badly needed.
Alain Soral would be an excellent man to lead the new force. He is already known to English readers; in France he is very popular, though he is less known than the main contenders. Soral supported the GJ from beginning. His site has published an interesting political mandala explaining his – and others’ – position.
He locates his movement between Socialism and Nationalism, between Labour and Traditionalism, opposing Macron who stands for Capitalism and Globalism, between Profit and LGBT; while Le Pen prefers Nationalism (like Soral) and Capitalism (like Macron), and Melenchon takes a more familiar course of Socialism and Globalism. On the mandala, Soral is True North, a highly symbolical position.
On the frame of the mandala, you can discern names; bankers George Soros and Jacques Attali stand behind Macron; the above-mentioned Cohn-Bendit stands behind Melenchon; Finkelcraut and Zemmour are depicted behind Marine Le Pen; and (I am proud to note) the names of three writers of Unz Review are written at Alain Soral’s side, Norman Finkelstein, Gilad Atzmon, et moi, Israel Shamir. Soral also published my books, and I am very positive about him. A man who is not afraid to use the National Socialist moniker definitely has guts, especially as there are many young North African and Black men in his predominantly white nativist and masculine movement.
The demands of the GJ are already better than anything proposed by political parties of the left and the right. They want the rich to pay too, not only the middle class. They want to roll back privatizations, especially of the railways, re-install the dismissed workers and employees, recruit doctors to hospitals and teachers for schools, to put an end to the dismantling of the welfare state. Leave the EU, leave NATO, stop wars abroad. Stop the massive migration to the country and at the same time stop the looting of the former French Africa, because it is this looting that is pushing the Africans to a mass flight to France. Drop out of competition who will make more concessions to corporations and their owners, i.e. tax the international companies.
In short, the insurgents demand to reverse the reforms of recent years, for the previous administrations, whether of Sarkozy the rightist, Hollande the leftist or Macron the outsider competed who will do more for the companies and less for the people (they call it ‘increasing competitiveness”). They want to return to pre-1991 France. In those days, the rich people had some vestigial fear of communism and they paid some consideration to workers, and allowed them to live and flourish. The rebels also demand to decouple media off the elites, give a voice to the people, listen to their wishes, and this is a very important demand.
Judging by these demands, France is again leading the world. On the barricades of Paris, the neoliberal dystopia of creating a state for the super-rich had collapsed. Even if the uprising will be finally crushed, its basic demands will serve as a beacon for new uprisings and revolutions until they win. And the people will surely win.
December 11, 2018 - The Indiscreet Charm of the Gilets Jaunes
The Indiscreet Charm of the <i>Gilets Jaunes</i>
So it appears the privatization of France isn’t going quite as smoothly as planned. As I assume you are aware, for over a month now, the gilets jaunes (or “yellow vests”), a multiplicitous, leaderless, extremely pissed off, confederation of working class persons, have been conducting a series of lively protests in cities and towns throughout the country to express their displeasure with Emmanuel Macron and his efforts to transform their society into an American-style neo-feudal dystopia.
Highways have been blocked, toll booths commandeered, luxury automobiles set on fire, and shopping on the Champs-Élysées disrupted. What began as a suburban tax revolt has morphed into a bona fide working class uprising.
It took a while for “the Golden Boy of Europe” to fully appreciate what was happening. In the tradition of his predecessor, Louis XVI, Macron initially responded to the gilets jaunes by inviting a delegation of Le Monde reporters to laud his renovation of the Elysée Palace, making the occasional condescending comment, and otherwise completely ignoring them. That was back in late November. Last Saturday, he locked down central Paris, mobilized a literal army of riot cops, “preventatively arrested” hundreds of citizens, including suspected “extremist students,” and sent in the armored military vehicles.
The English-language corporate media, after doing their best not to cover these protests (and, instead, to keep the American and British publics focused on imaginary Russians), have been forced to now begin the delicate process of delegitimizing the gilets jaunes without infuriating the the entire population of France and inciting the British and American proletariats to go out and start setting cars on fire. They got off to a bit of an awkward start.
For example, this piece by Angelique Chrisafis, The Guardian‘s Paris Bureau Chief, and her Twitter feed from the protests last Saturday. Somehow (probably a cock-up at headquarters), The Guardian honchos allowed Chrisafis to do some actual propaganda-free reporting (and some interviews with actual protesters) before they caught themselves and replaced her with Kim Willsher, who resumed The Guardian‘s usual neoliberal establishment-friendly narrative, which, in this case, entailed dividing the protesters into “real” gilets jaunes and “fake” gilet jaunes, and referring to the latter fictional group as “thuggish, extremist political agitators.”
By Sunday, the corporate media were insinuating that diabolical Russian Facebook bots had brainwashed the French into running amok, because who else could possibly be responsible? Certainly not the French people themselves! The French, as every American knows, are by nature a cowardly, cheese-eating people, who have never overthrown their rightful rulers, or publicly beheaded the aristocracy. No, the French were just sitting there, smoking like chimneys, and otherwise enjoying their debt-enslavement and the privatization of their social democracy, until they unsuspectingly logged onto Facebook and … BLAMMO, the Russian hackers got them!
Bloomberg is reporting that French authorities have opened a probe into Russian interference (in the middle of which report, for no apparent reason, a gigantic photo of Le Pen is featured, presumably just to give it that “Nazi” flavor). According to “analysis seen by The Times,” Russia-linked social media accounts have been “amplifying” the “chaos” and “violence” by tweeting photos of gilets jaunes who the French police have savagely beaten or gratuitiously shot with “less-than-lethal projectiles.” “Are nationalists infiltrating the yellow vests?” the BBC Newsnight producers are wondering. According to Buzzfeed’s Ryan Broderick, “a beast born almost entirely from Facebook” is slouching toward … well, I’m not quite sure, the UK or even, God help us, America! And then there’s Max Boot, who is convinced he is being personally persecuted by Russian agents like Katie Hopkins, James Woods, Glenn Greenwald, and other high-ranking members of a worldwide conspiracy Boot refers to as the “Illiberal International” (but which regular readers of my column will recognize as the “Putin-Nazis“).
And, see, this is the problem the corporate media (and other staunch defenders of global neoliberalism) are facing with these gilets jaunes protests. They can’t get away with simply claiming that what is happening is not a working class uprising, so they have been forced to resort to these blatant absurdities. They know they need to delegitimize the gilets jaunes as soon as possible — the movement is already starting to spread — but the “Putin-Nazi” narrative they’ve been using on Trump, Corbyn, and other “populists” is just not working.
No one believes the Russians are behind this, not even the hacks who are paid to pretend they do. And the “fascism” hysteria is also bombing. Attempts to portray the gilets jaunes as Le Pen-sponsored fascists blew up in their faces. Obviously, the far-Right are part of these protests, as they would be in any broad working class uprising, but there are far too many socialists and anarchists (and just regular pissed-off working class people) involved for the media to paint them all as “Nazis.”
Which is not to say that the corporate media and prominent public intellectuals like Bernard-Henri Lévy will not continue to hammer away at the “fascism” hysteria, and demand that the “good” and “real” gilets jaunes suspend their protests against Macron until they have completely purged their movement of “fascists,” and “extremists,” and other dangerous elements, and have splintered it into a number of smaller, antagonistic ideological factions that can be more easily neutralized by the French authorities … because that’s what establishment intellectuals do.
We can expect to hear this line of reasoning, not just from establishment intellectuals like Lévy, but also from members of the Identity Politics Left, who are determined to prevent the working classes from rising up against global neoliberalism until they have cleansed their ranks of every last vestige of racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, transphobia, and so on. These leftist gatekeepers have been struggling a bit to come up with a response to the gilets jaunes … a response that doesn’t make them sound like hypocrites. See, as leftists, they kind of need to express their support for a bona fide working class uprising. At the same time, they need to delegitimize it, because their primary adversaries are fascism, racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, and assorted other isms and phobias, not the neoliberal ruling classes.
Nothing scares the Identity Politics Left quite like an actual working class uprising. Witnessing the furious unwashed masses operating out there on their own, with no decent human restraint whatsoever, Identity Politics Leftists feel a sudden overwhelming urge to analyze, categorize, organize, sanitize, and otherwise correct and control them. They can’t accept the fact that the actual, living, breathing working classes are messy, multiplicitous, inconsistent, and irreducible to any one ideology.
Some of them are racists. Some are fascists. Others are communists, socialists, and anarchists. Many have no idea what they are, and don’t particularly care for any of these labels. This is what the actual working classes are … a big, contradictory collection of people who, in spite of all their differences, share one thing in common, that they are being screwed over by the ruling classes. I don’t know about you, but I consider myself one of them.
Where we go from here is anyone’s guess. According to The Guardian, as I am sitting here writing this, the whole of Europe is holding its breath in anticipation of the gilets jaunes’ response to Macron’s most recent attempt to appease them, this time with an extra hundred Euros a month, some minor tax concessions, and a Christmas bonus. Something tells me it’s not going to work, but even if it does, and the gilets jaunes uprising ends, this messy, Western “populist” insurgency against global neoliberalism has clearly entered a new phase. Count on the global capitalist ruling classes to intensify their ongoing War on Dissent and their demonization of anyone opposing them (or contradicting their official narrative) as an “extremist,” a “fascist,” a “Russian agent,” and so on. I’m certainly looking forward to that, personally.
Oh … yeah, and I almost forgot, if you were wondering what you could get me for Christmas, I did some checking, and there appears to be a wide selection of yellow safety vests online for just a couple Euros.
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A yellow vest beaten up by the police? Internet users between doubt and indignation (video)
A video that has become viral, showing a group of armed men, probably plainclothes police officers, bludgeoning a yellow vest, has created controversy on the Internet, both about the authenticity of the images and the validity of police actions during the demonstrations.
A video posted on social networks where armed men are seen bludgeoning a yellow vest on the ground quickly became viral, angering Internet users, but also raising many questions among social network users.
According to an Internet user who shared the video on Twitter, the scene takes place during Act 6 (22nd December) of the Yellow Vests in Toulouse.
Indignant by this scene of violence, many people describe this use of force as disproportionate, criticize the police and call for an investigation.
There are also those who believe that the police should rather side with the protesters.
Some commentators recall the case of the presidential security adviser Alexander Benalla, who was filmed beating up demonstrators and was later placed under formal investigation.
The hypothesis of the existence of a "private militia in the Elysée" had already been mentioned by the media and on social networks when the scandal caused by the Benalla affair broke out in July. Emmanuel Macron's chief of staff, François-Xavier Lauch, formally denied this information. And now this idea is back on the Internet.
This time, an official reaction from the authorities would also be welcome, say Internet users who mention the name of Benjamin Griveaux, Secretary of State to the Prime Minister and Government Spokesman, and Christophe Castaner, Minister of the Interior, in their comments.
In addition, many people wonder whether this is not misinformation since the armed persons who hit the yellow vest do not have armbands or other means of identifying them as police officers.
In addition, their behaviour does not resemble that of the police, adds one Internet user.
But other commentators see the lack of uniforms and police numbers as a means used by suspected police officers to avoid being brought to justice.
According to some Internet users, these are plainclothes police officers, probably officers of the National Police's Anti-Crime Brigade (BAC).
At the same time, many people say they trust the police and express their support for the police. They recall that demonstrators have also participated in violent demonstrations, particularly in Paris where three motorcycle police officers were violently attacked on Saturday (note: after FIRST provoking the protesters, it seems) and one of them even pulled out his weapon to defend himself.
There are also Internet users who wonder why the author of the message added hashtags about Indonesia where a tsunami killed more than 330 people according to a new report, as well as hashtages about Donald Trump, who has nothing to do with the scene presented in the video.
According to them, this may be propaganda against the police or a message aimed at stirring up hatred.
But to understand whether it is a case of police violence, an online provocation or something else, you first have to understand what you see. Many people say they want more information about what happened on the street shown in the video before the police start bludgeoning.
On YouTube, there is a more complete version of the video showing the moments preceding the intervention of the alleged plainclothes police officers. However, it does not make it possible to understand what actions the demonstrator took that caused a violent reaction from the people armed with truncheons in the video.
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A video that has become viral, showing a group of armed men, probably plainclothes police officers, bludgeoning a yellow vest, has created controversy on the Internet, both about the authenticity of the images and the validity of police actions during the demonstrations.
A video posted on social networks where armed men are seen bludgeoning a yellow vest on the ground quickly became viral, angering Internet users, but also raising many questions among social network users.
According to an Internet user who shared the video on Twitter, the scene takes place during Act 6 (22nd December) of the Yellow Vests in Toulouse.
Indignant by this scene of violence, many people describe this use of force as disproportionate, criticize the police and call for an investigation.
There are also those who believe that the police should rather side with the protesters.
Some commentators recall the case of the presidential security adviser Alexander Benalla, who was filmed beating up demonstrators and was later placed under formal investigation.
The hypothesis of the existence of a "private militia in the Elysée" had already been mentioned by the media and on social networks when the scandal caused by the Benalla affair broke out in July. Emmanuel Macron's chief of staff, François-Xavier Lauch, formally denied this information. And now this idea is back on the Internet.
This time, an official reaction from the authorities would also be welcome, say Internet users who mention the name of Benjamin Griveaux, Secretary of State to the Prime Minister and Government Spokesman, and Christophe Castaner, Minister of the Interior, in their comments.
In addition, many people wonder whether this is not misinformation since the armed persons who hit the yellow vest do not have armbands or other means of identifying them as police officers.
In addition, their behaviour does not resemble that of the police, adds one Internet user.
But other commentators see the lack of uniforms and police numbers as a means used by suspected police officers to avoid being brought to justice.
According to some Internet users, these are plainclothes police officers, probably officers of the National Police's Anti-Crime Brigade (BAC).
At the same time, many people say they trust the police and express their support for the police. They recall that demonstrators have also participated in violent demonstrations, particularly in Paris where three motorcycle police officers were violently attacked on Saturday (note: after FIRST provoking the protesters, it seems) and one of them even pulled out his weapon to defend himself.
There are also Internet users who wonder why the author of the message added hashtags about Indonesia where a tsunami killed more than 330 people according to a new report, as well as hashtages about Donald Trump, who has nothing to do with the scene presented in the video.
According to them, this may be propaganda against the police or a message aimed at stirring up hatred.
But to understand whether it is a case of police violence, an online provocation or something else, you first have to understand what you see. Many people say they want more information about what happened on the street shown in the video before the police start bludgeoning.
On YouTube, there is a more complete version of the video showing the moments preceding the intervention of the alleged plainclothes police officers. However, it does not make it possible to understand what actions the demonstrator took that caused a violent reaction from the people armed with truncheons in the video.
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Game over soon for Manu?
New scandal around fired Macron aide troubles France
PARIS (AP) - Alexandre Benalla hasn't finished causing trouble for the French president.
Emmanuel Macron's former security aide is again at the heart of a political scandal, just as the president is struggling against yellow vest protests that have undercut his legitimacy at home and abroad.
Benalla, 27, was sacked in July after public uproar over his beating of a protester , and courted controversy by showing off a gun and other perks of his murky but powerful position. Benalla's actions - and the way Macron's office clumsily handled them - caused the French leader's first major presidential crisis and discredited his efforts to clean up politics.
This week, news reports suggest Benalla is leveraging his former presidential connections for personal gain.
Le Monde reported that Benalla traveled to Chad and Cameroon this month for high-level meetings, and investigative website Mediapart reported that he used diplomatic passports to do so. The visits came just before Macron himself visited Chad, raising questions about whether Benalla was acting as some sort of intermediary.
Benalla has said the trip was totally private and rejected suggestions he was abusing his former position, according to French media reports.
Macron himself has stayed silent. An official with the presidential palace insisted that Benalla no longer has any links to Macron's office. The official said Macron remains "determined to break with the system of intermediaries" long used by French leaders, notably in former colonies in Africa.
The presidential palace said in a statement Friday that it asked the Foreign Ministry to take "all appropriate measures" to address the possible misuse of the passports.
The Foreign Ministry threatened possible legal action. Ministry spokeswoman Agnes von der Muhll said it asked Benalla in July to return his two diplomatic passports but he hasn't complied. In a statement Thursday night, she said that based on the recent media reports, the ministry "is examining next steps, including legal ones."
Benalla was already handed preliminary charges over the protester beating in May.
New scandal around fired Macron aide troubles France
PARIS (AP) - Alexandre Benalla hasn't finished causing trouble for the French president.
Emmanuel Macron's former security aide is again at the heart of a political scandal, just as the president is struggling against yellow vest protests that have undercut his legitimacy at home and abroad.
Benalla, 27, was sacked in July after public uproar over his beating of a protester , and courted controversy by showing off a gun and other perks of his murky but powerful position. Benalla's actions - and the way Macron's office clumsily handled them - caused the French leader's first major presidential crisis and discredited his efforts to clean up politics.
This week, news reports suggest Benalla is leveraging his former presidential connections for personal gain.
Le Monde reported that Benalla traveled to Chad and Cameroon this month for high-level meetings, and investigative website Mediapart reported that he used diplomatic passports to do so. The visits came just before Macron himself visited Chad, raising questions about whether Benalla was acting as some sort of intermediary.
Benalla has said the trip was totally private and rejected suggestions he was abusing his former position, according to French media reports.
Macron himself has stayed silent. An official with the presidential palace insisted that Benalla no longer has any links to Macron's office. The official said Macron remains "determined to break with the system of intermediaries" long used by French leaders, notably in former colonies in Africa.
The presidential palace said in a statement Friday that it asked the Foreign Ministry to take "all appropriate measures" to address the possible misuse of the passports.
The Foreign Ministry threatened possible legal action. Ministry spokeswoman Agnes von der Muhll said it asked Benalla in July to return his two diplomatic passports but he hasn't complied. In a statement Thursday night, she said that based on the recent media reports, the ministry "is examining next steps, including legal ones."
Benalla was already handed preliminary charges over the protester beating in May.
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Yellow vests gathered in front of the media HQ's
A major police force was deployed in front of the BFMTV building, then France Télévisions.
More than 300 yellow vests are gathering this Saturday morning in front of the main entrance of the building that hosts the headquarters of the 24h news channel BFMTV, said L'Express, whose offices are located in the same building.
On the day of Act 7 of the mobilisation of the yellow vests, this Saturday at around 12:30 pm, dozens began to gather in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, near the Balard metro station, responding to a call broadcast on Facebook.
"journalists are quislings", chant the demonstrators. "Hey, journalists, we are here now! You will have to answer for your actions, for your lies," shouted a spokesman equipped with a megaphone, before singing La Marseillaise.
A major police operation was deployed in the morning in these offices, which bring together various activities of the Altice group (SFR, BFMTV, RMC, Libération and L'Express).
At around 1:30 pm, most of the group was already moving away and falling back to the Balard metro station. "There's no point in being here, there are no passers-by," some of them exchanged, as a L'Express journalist on the spot noted.
As they arrived at a gas station halfway down the road, at least one demonstrator was taken down by the police and arrested, as could be seen on a live video broadcast on Periscope. Protesters invaded the tramway lane and threw projectiles at the police, who responded with tear gas and made further arrests.
Demonstrators blocked for a long time
The group then moved quietly to the headquarters of France Télévisions, where they stayed for about two hours.
After being cooped up for a long time on the Henri-de-France esplanade, in front of the public television headquarters, clashes between gendarmes and demonstrators broke out shortly before 4pm. The yellow vests were finally able to break through in the direction of Javel towards the headquarters of radio station Europe 1, which seemed to be their next stop.
Other yellow vests were gathering at the same time on the Champs-Elysées, in Bordeaux, Rouen, Marseille or Nantes for this Saturday of mobilization, which seemed generally weaker than last week.
A major police force was deployed in front of the BFMTV building, then France Télévisions.
More than 300 yellow vests are gathering this Saturday morning in front of the main entrance of the building that hosts the headquarters of the 24h news channel BFMTV, said L'Express, whose offices are located in the same building.
On the day of Act 7 of the mobilisation of the yellow vests, this Saturday at around 12:30 pm, dozens began to gather in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, near the Balard metro station, responding to a call broadcast on Facebook.
"journalists are quislings", chant the demonstrators. "Hey, journalists, we are here now! You will have to answer for your actions, for your lies," shouted a spokesman equipped with a megaphone, before singing La Marseillaise.
A major police operation was deployed in the morning in these offices, which bring together various activities of the Altice group (SFR, BFMTV, RMC, Libération and L'Express).
At around 1:30 pm, most of the group was already moving away and falling back to the Balard metro station. "There's no point in being here, there are no passers-by," some of them exchanged, as a L'Express journalist on the spot noted.
As they arrived at a gas station halfway down the road, at least one demonstrator was taken down by the police and arrested, as could be seen on a live video broadcast on Periscope. Protesters invaded the tramway lane and threw projectiles at the police, who responded with tear gas and made further arrests.
Demonstrators blocked for a long time
The group then moved quietly to the headquarters of France Télévisions, where they stayed for about two hours.
After being cooped up for a long time on the Henri-de-France esplanade, in front of the public television headquarters, clashes between gendarmes and demonstrators broke out shortly before 4pm. The yellow vests were finally able to break through in the direction of Javel towards the headquarters of radio station Europe 1, which seemed to be their next stop.
Other yellow vests were gathering at the same time on the Champs-Elysées, in Bordeaux, Rouen, Marseille or Nantes for this Saturday of mobilization, which seemed generally weaker than last week.
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A mainstream media article updated today is maintaining that the participants in the Yellow Vest protests are decreasing. It doesn't seem that way with “Paris in flames”:
“But the turnout for round seven of the popular protests that have rocked France appeared low.
Despite it being the seventh weekend of protests, momentum for the movement appears to be waning as only small groups took to the streets in Paris and elsewhere in France.”
Paris goes up in flames as the Eiffel Tower is shrouded by a pall of black smoke | Daily Mail Online
“But the turnout for round seven of the popular protests that have rocked France appeared low.
Despite it being the seventh weekend of protests, momentum for the movement appears to be waning as only small groups took to the streets in Paris and elsewhere in France.”
Paris goes up in flames as the Eiffel Tower is shrouded by a pall of black smoke | Daily Mail Online
