‘Macron
Regime’ Resorts to Gestapo Tactics to Head-off Students Protests
7
December, 2018
Earlier
this week, 21WIRE reported on how the government of Emmanuel Macron
had lost control of state storm trooper police who have been allowed
to run wild by
hunting down and beating Yellow Vest reformist protesters in
the streets, and with no apparent accountability. This, after Macron
had publicly derided protesters which was clearly taken as a green
light to unleash state thuggery on French citizens exercising their
freedom of assembly and protest. As
a result, France’s brutal police state was on display for the world
to see.
Rather
than reign in state shock troops, the ‘Macron
Regime,’ as
it’s now being called by some pundits (a a counter-meme to France
and the West’s habitual labeling of their foreign targets nations
like Syria as ‘regimes’), has escalated authoritarian state
measures by rounding up students en mass and treating any young males
who they have profiled as a ‘potential threat’ to join the Yellow
Vest movement – as criminals.
Macron’s
new draconian policing policies have disturbed even members of his
own cabinet, including French education minister Jean-Michel
Blanquer who
admitted that the images of a schoolyard full of students on their
knees sent out a very negative message, stating:
“The image is shocking, there have been shocking images because we are in a climate of exceptional violence.”
As
students assumed the criminal position, French riot policy could be
seen pacing back and forth with their batons in Gestapo-like fashion
in what appears to be an attempt to intimidate French youth into some
new ad
hoc behavioural
code of compliance. Police have been desperate to reassert state
authority and control over a national crisis which has been spiraled
out of control over the last three weeks.
A
video was released to French media from the town of Mantes-la-Jolie
which shows rows of reformist protesters being humiliated by French
police, forced to kneel with their hands behind their heads, as state
shock troops look on.
Fortunately, clashes in Mantes-la-Jolie did not result in any serious casualties..
Meanwhile, nationwide protests saw some 153 arrests, across some 700 high schools, with 400 schools closed due to security concerns.
French
authorities are bracing themselves for more unrest this weekend in
major cities across the country.
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Viral Video Of French Students Lined Up Execution-Style Sparks Outrage; Protesters Want Macron's "Scalp"
7
December, 2018
A
viral video of French police detaining protesting high school
students "execution style" has sparked outrage, just one
day ahead of planned protests across the country which were already
anticipated to be particularly violent.
The
footage shows the moment dozens of students protesting education
reform in Mantes-la-Jolie in north-central France were arrested on
Thursday - most of whom were teens from local high schools.
D'autres images de l'interpellation de dizaines de lycéens, aujourd'hui à Mantes-la-Jolie.
The
video, released Thursday night by the Twitter account Violences
Policières (Police Violence), has been viewed over 2
million times in
less than 24 hours. Many of the replies suggested that it looked
like "execution
by firing squad" and "hostage
taking."
#macron #Castaner #Philippe #LREM #StopViolences #StopViolencesPolicieres
Tel un peloton d'exécution
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The
imagery of unarmed French teens following orders from heavily armed
police is not likely to sit well with angry French citizens the
day before "Act IV" of "Yellow Vest" protests
are scheduled for Paris and elsewhere -
leading to the deployment of 89,000 police
and gendarmes across the country, according to the Prime Minister. At
least 8,000
riot police will
be deployed in Paris alone.
One
angry Paris taxi driver called for Macron's "scalp" in a
half-hour monologue, according to Bloomberg.
"We’re
going out there to fight," he said, adding: "I want
Macron’s scalp, I’m not afraid of anything. I have nothing to
lose. You
have to risk your life or you don’t get anything from these
people."
The self-employed cab driver in his 40s, who declined to provide his name, was one of the thousands of protesters who fought the police on Paris’s landmark Champs-Elysees avenue last weekend. Throwing cobblestones, burning cars, desecrating the Arc de Triomphe monument, breaking store windows and looting, images of the rioters shocked viewers across the globe. The protests forced Macron to suspend the fuel-tax plan, but that hasn’t appeased everyone. -Bloomberg
The
cabbie plans to "try
to break into to the very tightly guarded Elysee
presidential palace,
just half a mile away from Paris’s best-known avenue. He is one of
the people that Macron’s office has warned want to “riot
and kill.”"
For people like the taxi driver, there’s no limit when it comes to removing the youngest French leader since Napoleon who, as the country’s economy minister between 2014 and 2016, deregulated the taxi business and was a strong supporter of car-booking apps.
“He ruined us, he broke our business,” the taxi driver said. “He wants everything new, digital, the new world, and he did it all without thinking of the cost for us. Replace everyone, have everything young, new? Yeah, well that’s not how you do things. Now it’s payback time.” -Bloomberg
The
taxi driver has organized along with friends via social media
platforms, using WhatsApp and then Telegram when the WhatsApp chat
limited them to "only a few hundred people in a group."
One of the groups he’s in is called “Combat Taxis” or the Taxi Fight. Another was dubbed “Saturday Fight.”They won’t register their demonstration plans with the police as legally required, nor obey the Interior Ministry’s order not to go to the Champs-Elysees avenue. -Bloomberg
The
outrage across France comes after the Macron government announced a
new fuel tax aimed at combating Global Warming - right
as France has overtaken Denmark as the most heavily taxed nation in
the world.
Macron's
popularity, meanwhile is at a record
low -
slipping to just 23% in a recent poll as left-wing French
politicians have
agreed to work together across parties to call for a No
Confidence vote against
the President.
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