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I would say that the gloves are coming off and the facade of democracy is to be removed and repression is coming - possibly martial law. It remains to be seen if this can be put back in the bottle.
I doubt it.
In the menatime MSM is censoring this while it lauds demonstrations in Hungary.
French
PM says new, tougher laws on unauthorized protests coming in wake of
Yellow Vest clashes
RT,
7
January, 2019
French
Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has said that the government will
crack down on unauthorized protests and toughen punishment for
rioting in the wake of anti-government Yellow Vest demonstrations
which began in November.
The
new measures will significantly toughen punishment for people who
participate in riots, Philippe said, while adding that it was
still “necessary
to preserve the freedom” to
demonstrate in France. Those who want to protest peacefully should
not be punished, he said.
The
announcement comes as part of new “public
order” measures
unveiled by the government after the Yellow Vest protests resulted in
violence against police officers and government buildings.
Philippe’s
office said in a statement on Monday that the government would
take “a
very firm stance” against
the “continued
unacceptable violence across the country.”
Philippe
also told channel TF1 that a major police force of 80,000 will be
deployed in France next Saturday, including 5,000 in Paris. Over
1,000 people have already been charged in connection with the
protests and rioting, he added.
“Over
1,000 sentences have been given in total. Around 5,600 people have
been detained since the beginning of the [Yellow Vest]
movement,” Philippe
said.
“We
cannot accept that some people take advantage of these demonstrations
to break, to burn,” he
stressed.
Сovering protest from the office? French TV station refuses
to hit the street after reporters mobbed
The
newly announced measures to curb the nationwide protest movement
received mixed reactions. While Mayor of Toulouse Jean-Luc
Moudenc said he
was “satisfied” with
Philippe's move, opposition politicians such as Jean-Luc Mélenchon
sarcastically claimed that the PM is totally disconnected from
reality.
“The king of the Shadocks is in ‘Journalists come down’: Yellow Vests chant ‘fake news’ outside French TV station (VIDEOS) Matignon,” Mélenchon said referring to the popular animated series where ignorant bird-like creatures live on their own planet, and the Matignon Palace, the official residence of the prime minister.
“PM
promises more arrests? We want more purchasing
power!” tweeted national
secretary of the French Communist Party (PCF) Fabien Roussel.
Although
the country's interior minister Christophe Castaner said he's “fully
behind” the
prime minister’s proposal, the president of The Republicans Laurent
Wauquiez seemed disappointed,
and has called for a return to the state of emergency to
immediately “restore
order” in
France.
Yellow
Vest activists, by and large, were furious. “People
will keep this government the image of the bloody repression of a
citizen movement,” one
social media user tweeted. “I
am ashamed of my France for this repression. Long live the yellow
vests!” said another.
On
the eighth consecutive weekend of anti-government protests across
France, three BFMTV journalists and their security detail were chased
through the streets of Rouen, after some protesters took offense to
their presence.
One of the attacked journalists told Le Parisien that the crowd turned on the team after a cameraman tried to film a protester’s banner. “30 people turned against us,” the reporter said. “Threw eggs at us and insulted us. Our security exfiltrated us with difficulty, because some demonstrators barred the road with garbage cans.”
Video footage of the fleeing journalists quickly did the rounds on social media, and other journalists jumped to the embattled team’s defense.
“The reporter in question is a friend,” wrote AFP’s Anne-Sophie Faivre Le Cadre. “Who works every weekend for a salary just above the minimum wage. Shame on the yellow vests.”
Сovering
protest from the office? French TV station refuses to hit the street
after reporters mobbed
Journalists
with French TV station BFMTV have opted to cover anti-government
demonstrations from the office, after a camera crew was attacked at a
rally. The protesters say BFMTV peddles ‘fake news’.
One of the attacked journalists told Le Parisien that the crowd turned on the team after a cameraman tried to film a protester’s banner. “30 people turned against us,” the reporter said. “Threw eggs at us and insulted us. Our security exfiltrated us with difficulty, because some demonstrators barred the road with garbage cans.”
Video footage of the fleeing journalists quickly did the rounds on social media, and other journalists jumped to the embattled team’s defense.
“The reporter in question is a friend,” wrote AFP’s Anne-Sophie Faivre Le Cadre. “Who works every weekend for a salary just above the minimum wage. Shame on the yellow vests.”
From a couple of days ago
Yellow Vest agitators want insurrection to ‘overthrow the government’ – Macron spokesman
RT,
5
January, 2019
The
Yellow Vest movement has become full of agitators who only want to
“overthrow the government,” a spokesman for President Emmanuel
Macron’s government said of the protests that gripped France since
November.
Benjamin
Griveaux made the comments following
the government’s first Council of Ministers meeting of 2019 on
Friday, as cabinet members returned from their two week Christmas
break.
He
addressed those “still
mobilized among the Yellow Vests,”
saying the movement has “become
the act of agitators who want insurrection and to overthrow the
government.”
Griveaux
added that the government was “ready
to discuss with sincere people who do not turn the difficulties of
fellow countrymen into a political instrument.”
Starting
last November, the leaderless Yellow Vest movement started as a
series of protests against a proposed hike in fuel prices. The
clashes between the police and protesters resulted in thousands
arrested and hundreds injured. In early December the fuel tax
increase was ditched, but the movement has since broadened its agenda
to include opposition to wider policy changes proposed under Macron’s
reform agenda, which critics say favor the rich while the standards
of living for the majority of French citizens continue to decline.
Macron promised small
salary increases, but insisted the government would not yield to the
pressure and continue with its course.
Ahead
of a planned eighth national day of protest scheduled for Saturday,
January 5, a collective associated with the movement penned an open
letter to Macron. Calling Paris the capital of “restriction
of individual liberties,” the
activists said they would continue to fight inequality and police
repression.
Comment from Russian television
Macron Gassed His Own Citizens! Massive Yellow Vest Crowds March On Through the Smoke
The
French National Rally political party and its leader Marine Le Pen
advocate the dissolution of the country's lower house, holding an
early parliamentary election introducing the Citizens' Initiative
Referendum in order to find a way out of the country's crisis,
according to the party's communique issued on Monday.
The
RN communique offers the party's plan for overcoming the crisis in
the country triggered by the yellow vest movement.
The
plan should be implemented in three stages, with the plan's key idea
being the holding of a referendum on adopting amendments that would
restore a representative democracy in the country by introducing full
proportional representation system in legislative elections, reducing
the number of lawmakers and establishing the RIC mechanism.
The
former boxer who repeatedly punched an officer during a Yellow Vest
protest in Paris and was later detained, has defended his actions
online. In a video posted on social media, he calls himself a “normal
citizen.”
The
video was uploaded by Gaelle Galou, who identified herself as boxer
Christophe Dettinger’s sister-in-law and said that he was “not a
criminal,” but “just a yellow vest trying to defend his country
for the future of his children!” Dettinger was identified by police
after footage of him pummeling the officer went viral over the
weekend.
In
Galou’s video, Dettinger, who is a former light heavyweight
champion, declares himself a Yellow Vest and says that he has “the
anger of the people within” him. The Yellow Vest protests began in
November 2018, initially against a proposed fuel tax hike, later
growing into a wider movement against the economic policies of
President Emmanuel Macron’s government.
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