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A social media posting is now going viral in France, and it does not bode well for the country:
"Nous nous adressons à la population, c'est le calme avant la tempête !!! Faites des provisions, de l'essence /gazoil, faites le pleins en nourriture et médicaments !!! Nous allons tout bloquer dès le 10 décembre !!! Nous nous arrêterons quand se que nous demandons sera réellement mis en place !!! Assez de nous prendre pour des cons !! Nous voulons vivre et non survivre !!! Rejoignez nous le10 décembre !! Aucune école, aucune administration ! Ouverte !! Aucun magasin !! Nous bloquerons les accès et sorties d'aéroport !!les grandes surfaces ! Les bureaux !! La Srpp !! Nous prévenons la population !!! Rejoignez nous au différents barrages ou restez chez vous ! Nous les GJ sommes non violents et ne voulons pas que de belles paroles mais des actes !!! LE 10 DÉCEMBRE TOUS ENSEMBLE !!!!
Translated,
the social media posting reads as follows:
"This
is a message for the population: It is the calm before the storm!!!
Make provisions: fuel, food, medicines!!
We
are going to block everything starting from the 10th of December. We
will only stop once what we are asking is implemented.
We
have had enough of being taken for fools.
We
want to live, and not just survive.
Come
with us on the 10th of December. No school, no government services
open for business.
We
will block all entries and exits to airports, supermarkets, offices
etc...
We
are alerting the population. Come with us on the blockades or stay at
home.
We
yellow jackets are non violent, but we will not be satisfied with
pretty words. We want acts!
All
together the 10th of December!!!"
France Is Hemorrhaging Sensitive Data, And People Are Beginning To Notice
French 'Yellow Vests' Reject Macron's Six-Month Tax Delay As Student Protests Intensify
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December, 2018
Despite
French President Emmanuel Macron letting his people "eat cake"
with a six-month suspension of the government's new "climate
change" fuel taxes, the so-called "Yellow Vest"
movement which has been protesting throughout France for more
than three weeks is still spitting mad.
"We
didn't want a suspension, we want the past increase in the tax on
fuels to be canceled immediately," said Yellow Vest organizer
Benjamin Cauchy on BFM TV. "Suspending the tax to re-instate it
in six months is taking the French people for a ride. French people
aren't sparrows waiting for crumbs from the government."
The
president's silence drew the wrath of some. "Macron has still
not deigned to talk to the people," said Laetitia Dewalle, a
Yellow Vests spokeswoman, on BFM TV. "We feel his disdain. He
maintains his international engagements but doesn't speak to the
people."
Sebastien
Chenu, a spokesman for Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally party
which has supported the Yellow Vests in hopes of capturing their
votes, said on LCI that "the French won't be fooled. The
government has understood nothing, it's just playing for time."
-Greenwich Time
Others,
however, may have been assuaged by the "limited time moratorium"
on the taxes - as a Tuesday BVA opinion poll for La Tribune reveals
that 70% of French citizens surveyed think the postponement justifies
stopping the Yellow Vest protests.
Footage apparently shows "yellow vest" protesters in Narbonne drive forklift hoisting a burning car into a toll booth as worst urban riots in a decade leave France reelingsabahdai.ly/6fZ70y
Watch police bodycam footage from the police when they clashed with "Yellow Vest" demonstrators in Paris #GilletsJaunes
Meanwhile,
French police ordered the cancellation of two football matches
scheduled for Saturday, while French interior minister Christophe
Castaner told lawmakers on Tuesday that additional security personnel
would reinforce the 65,000 police
and gendarmes during this Saturday's planned protests. Some
police unions have floated the idea of drafting the army as
backup, according
to Paris-based journalist Catherine Field.
#French Interior min tells lawmakers additional security personnel will reinforce the 65,000 police & gendarmes on duty this Saturday. With calls for fresh #yellowvest protests in Paris this coming weekend, some police unions asking the gvt to draft in the army as backup.
French
students, meanwhile,
have intensified their protests around the country - setting ire to
buildings and engaging in violent clashes with the police. The
students have "gradually started to get involved" with the
Yellow Vest movement, leading to riots in southwest France, Lyon,
Marseille, Bordeaux and the city of Orleans. A school in Blagnac,
near Toulouse was reportedly set on fire Tuesday, according
to Reuters.
Macron's backing down comes as his popularity hit a new low. A poll by Ifop for Paris Match magazine and Sud-Radio released Tuesday found the president's support had fallen six points to 23 percent. Philippe was at 26 percent. While Macron and parliament, where his party holds a majority, don't face new elections until 2022, the reversal on taxes may undermine the rest of his reform agenda.
The protesters, who started out blockaded traffic across France, brought their fight to Paris over the last two weekends. They defaced the Arc de Triomphe, burned hundreds of cars and blocked roads and fuel depots. -Greenwich Time
Meanwhile,
the Yellow Vest protests continue to take their toll on French
businesses - with big-box retailers suffering an average 8% decline
in sales on Saturday per Nielsen.
French “Yellow Vest” protests led to an average 8% decline in sales of consumer goods at big-box retailers on Saturday Dec. 1: Nielsen
With
all of that said, it will be interesting to see what Saturday brings.
As
France has been struggling to cope with a surge in violent protests
that has left hundreds of police and demonstrators injured, a video
showing officers making an unexpected conciliatory gesture has gone
viral.
Footage
posted on social media shows a group of about two dozen police
officers in riot gear removing their helmets while standing just
meters away from a crowd of Yellow Vest movement protesters – an
umbrella group behind the massive rallies that have gripped France
for several weeks.
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