"To the thousands of Londoners who protested peacefully today: I stand with you - and I share your anger and your pain"
-6 June, 2020
"This is not acceptable...Large gatherings are banned for a reason"
- 26 September, 2020
This German doctor addressed the crowd..
And was arrested.
Anti-lockdown protesters today clashed with police after at least 15,000 demonstrators descended on Trafalgar Square as part of a rally against coronavirus measures in the UK.
Attendees of the 'We Do Not Consent' rally ditched their masks as they crammed into the London square this afternoon, despite Metropolitan Police pleading with people to stick to Britain's coronavirus restrictions.
Crowds, who were also warned violence would not be tolerated, carried placards reading 'is this freedom?' and 'end the crazy rules' as they flocked to protest against Britain's coronavirus restrictions.
Sixteen people were arrested during the demonstration - which later moved to Hyde Park - and nine police officers were injured with two rushed to hospital.
Piers Corbyn, 73, brother of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, was among the crowd alongside conspiracy theorist David Icke, 68, who has made a series of false claims linking Covid-19 to 5G technology.
Demonstrators ditched their masks and ignored social distancing as they shouted 'we will win' and waved flags, before police shut them down because crowds 'have not complied with the conditions of their risk assessment'.
Trafalgar Square has a maximum capacity of 20,000 people and photographs showed crowds almost filling the area as they stood shoulder to shoulder to protest against Britain's increasingly stricter lockdown rules.
In contrast, last month's protests had around half today's turn-out - at around 10,000 people.
Skirmishes broke out between protesters and police later in the day, with those in attendance chanting 'shame on you' - shoving at officers as they passed through the crammed crowd.
Pictures show a woman appearing to be knocked to the ground as a struggle broke out behind her, while one man chanted with blood pouring out of his head.
In a statement, Scotland Yard said the breach had 'put people in danger of transmitting the virus' which voided their risk assessment and left those at the event 'no longer exempt' from Covid-19 restrictions.
'We are now asking those in Trafalgar Square to leave,' the force said. 'Officers will be engaging with crowds and informing them of this development. By leaving now, you can keep yourself safe and avoid any enforcement action being taken by officers.'
In other coronavirus developments today:
Scientists are considering a plan to ask everyone over the age of 45 to shield to stop the spread of Covid-19;
Britain has been warned to expect 100 coronavirus deaths a day within the next three to four weeks;
Government sources claimed Boris Johnson's 10pm pubs curfew was based on 'back of a fag packet calculations' and 'NOT advocated by SAGE';
The restrictions imposed in March could kill 75,000 in five years, including 31,000 deaths not related to Covid, according to documents submitted to SAGE;
Unions call for in-person university classes to be suspended as 3,000 students are placed in lockdown;
MailOnline analysis reveals Britain's outbreak began to surge after 'Super Saturday' reopening;
Sadiq Khan calls for Londoners to be stopped from visiting friends and family.
Here's one the New Normal totalitarians will love! It's the police punching a lady in the stomach and shoving her to the ground at the "No New Normal" protest in London today. But she probably deserved it, right? After all, she wasn't even wearing a mask.
Try
getting any media coverage of this. The 17-year-old son of Troy
Dubrowskiy who died in an encounter with the police shortly after the
Christchurch massacre is being held in custody by police.
There
seems to be a media blackout on this story.
17
year-old son of Troy Dubrovskiy, Max held in custody by police
Ben
Vidgen talks to family friend, Jeff Robinson
Ben
Vidgen, via Facebook
Jeff
Robinson close family friend to Troy Dubrovskiy deceased (after
police encounter following Christchurch shooting) and Max Dubrovskiy,
age 17, held in custody since his father Death for downloading video
and owning a Cao gun.He highlights the story you were not told
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
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.
“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.
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’.
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.”
From a couple of days ago Yellow
Vest agitators want insurrection to ‘overthrow the government’ –
Macron spokesman
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.
According
to a spokesperson for Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema, a yellow vest
protest was announced on Saturday in the city.
Amsterdam
isn’t the first capital to see a yellow vest protest. Earlier
Paris, Brussels and Berlin we’re the location of these protests.
The
movement, which is mostly peaceful, is already successful in France
as President Macron cancelled several
tax measures after an increasing number of protests.
But
the protests are far from over as several unions have
said they
will join the movement, as there is a lot of dissatisfaction with
Macron’s policies.
French
Police Union Calls on Police to Join Yellow Vests' Protests
After
the surge in fuel prices in France, the so-called Yellow Vests
movement has held protests, calling firstly on the government to
lower the prices, and then also on French President Emmanuel Macron
to resign. On Wednesday, the French National Assembly approved a
moratorium on the planned fuel price hike.
The
French labour union Vigi has called on its members working
in the national police and in the Ministry of the
Interior to start an indefinite strike on Saturday, joining
the Yellow Vests movement. The statement was placed on Vigi's
Facebook page on Wednesday.
"The
demands made by the Yellow Vests movement related to all
of us. The time to organize legally and express solidarity
with them for the benefit of all has come",
Vigi's post reads.
"We
are being perceived as mercenaries, given bonuses for overtime
work, but they cannot compensate for the decisions made
by the government", Vigi's statement reads.
The
call is directed at "administrative, technical, scientific and
state workers/cooks from the Ministry of the Interior",
according to the statement.
"Act
IV" of the Yellow Vests' protests, which is to start
on Saturday, will make the government take precautions,
as during the previous "Act III", more than 260
people, including some 80 police, were injured. Earlier, French
Interior Minister Christophe Castaner announced that he would
reinforce security for next Saturday.
Michel
Thooris, the head of the France Police labour union, said that
the French government had failed to implement security measures
in Paris, noting that "a majority of the French
continue to back the movement". She also
highlighted that using the armed forces against civilians would
indicate that France is heading towards a civil war.
The
protests, which started as a movement against a hike
in fuel prices, turned violent, leading to more than 600
people being injured and at least two deaths. The three-week
demonstration forced the French government to drop the fuel tax
rise from the 2019 budget.
"The
government is ready for dialogue and is showing it because this
tax increase has been dropped from the 2019 budget
bill", Edouard Philippe, the French prime minister, said
on December 5.
France
was set to deploy armored autos which have been utilized in battle
zones to tackle violent protests which have ravaged the capital.
French
Prime Minister Édouard Philippe mentioned Thursday that safety
forces have been set to ship in as much as a dozen Berliet VXB-170s,
recognized to the nation’s Nationwide Gendarmerie because the VBRG,
alongside 8,000 police and gendarme officers Saturday to safe Paris,
because the gilets jaunes, or “yellow vests,” demonstrations tore
by means of streets in protest of a proposed gas tax and different
unpopular authorities insurance policies. Philippe pointed to looting
and destruction of property in justifying the uncommon measure.
“We
face people who find themselves not there to exhibit however are
there to smash issues up and we need to be sure that we’re not
leaving them to do as they please,” Philippe instructed French
broadcaster TF1.
FranceVBRG
A French Gendarmerie wheeled armored car, often called the VBRG, is
seen on this picture shared by the French Ministry of Armed Forces.
The autos has been utilized in operations in Kosovo and the Ivory
Coast, and isn’t utilized in main cities. French Armed Forces Info
and Public Affairs Service
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Gendarmes present to French Inside minister Christophe Castaner (3R)
a Gendarmerie armored car (VBRG) on the cell Gendarmerie armored
unit, December 7 in Versailles, west of Paris. Along with the
hundreds of police deployed, a dozen armoured wheeled autos of the
gendarmerie (VBRG) will probably be utilized in Paris to face the
danger of violences through the 4th day of yellow vests mobilization
on December 8
The VBRG
has been utilized by France’s cell gendarmes since 1975 and is
“particularly used throughout legislation enforcement operations
and may be engaged in counterterrorism operations, in exterior
operations and even in operational protection of territory,”
in accordance with the French Protection Ministry’s official web
site. The ministry mentioned the car “efficiently engaged in joint
operations” through the Kosovo Battle and the First
Ivorian Civil Battle.
Able
to being outfitted with a 7.62 mm machine gun, 40 mm grenade launcher
and a bulldozer-like blade, the VBRG has hardly ever been seen
in main metropolis streets. The final time the French safety forces
deployed the car was the pressured evacuation of squatting activists
on the Notre-Dame-des-Landes in western France in April, and VBRGs
have been additionally mobilized throughout riots that hit Paris and
its surrounding suburbs in 2005, in accordance with the Sud
Ouest newspaper
France
has continuously skilled surges of social unrest, however the ongoing
turmoil has been described because the worst the nation has seen in
half a century, with a number of killed and not less than tons of
arrested and tons of extra injured. The “yellow vests” motion
will get its identify from the excessive visibility security vests
that drivers are mandated by legislation to hold of their autos.
Nationwide
protests, strikes and small riots have intermittently continued all
year long to October, however the “yellow vests” motion actually
took off in November as tons of of hundreds took to the streets in
protest of French President Emmanuel Macron’s controversial carbon
tax. The measure was designed to fight local weather change by
climbing gas costs, however has stoked sufficient outrage for a lot
of protestors to demand his resignation.
Protesters
construct a barricade throughout a protest of “yellow vests”
(gilets jaunes) in opposition to rising oil costs and residing
prices, on December 1 in Paris. The continuing unrest has rocked
French President Emmanuel Macron’s administration at a time when
his reputation was at its lowest level.
Highschool
college students re-enact yesterday’s scholar arrest in
Mantes-la-Jolie throughout an illustration on the place de la
Republique in Paris, on December 7 to protest in opposition to the
completely different training reforms together with the overhauls and
stricter college entrance necessities. Photographs of dozens of
high-school pupils kneeling with their palms behind their heads
throughout mass round-ups sparked an outcry.
The
“yellow vests” have been additionally not a homogenous motion,
however comprised of assorted teams, together with employees, college
students and activists. The extra violent members have burned down
constructions, looted retailers and attacked police. Macron has
reportedly thought of declaring a state of emergency because the
Eiffel Tower and different websites have been shut down in
anticipation of additional unrest, even because the president
promised to postpone his divisive proposal.
Whereas
scenes of rioters wreaking havoc throughout the nation have drawn
criticism, allegations of police brutality have additionally
bolstered anti-government sentiment in France. Current movies have
emerged exhibiting a number of safety power members beating an
unarmed protestor mendacity on the bottom, in addition to college
students being pressured in opposition to partitions as police broke
up college demonstrations in opposition to Macron’s training
reforms.
Drones
will also be widely used, linked to forces in the field.
Specialized
teams will be in charge of the evacuation of ministers in case the
situation in Paris becomes uncontrollable. An underground base
located on the side of Messanges is ready to welcome them, map below
for our friends from the southwest ("site 1" and "site
2"). For the record, we have a very detailed file on this base
... "secret" external and internal photos, etc. etc.
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Protesters
construct a barricade throughout a protest of “yellow vests”
(gilets jaunes) in opposition to rising oil costs and residing
prices, on December 1 in Paris. The continuing unrest has rocked
French President Emmanuel Macron’s administration at a time when
his reputation was at its lowest level. 
