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Title: 'SMASH AND KILL' Paris in lockdown with tear gas fired as 5,000 protesters descend for ‘Day of Rage’
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Sun (UK)
URL Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/79228 ... ar-gas-yellow-vest-protesters/
Published: Dec 8, 2018
Author: Jacob Dinhuber
Post Date: 2018-12-08 08:32:15 by IbJensen
Keywords: None
Views: 695
Comments: 5
Nearly 90,000 riot cops are preparing to tackle today's ferocious 'Yellow Vest' protest "Yellow vest" demonstrators are clashing with cops on the Champs Eylsees boulevard with more than 400 people already arrested over the violence. Major tourist attractions have been shut down including the Eiffel Tower as 90,000 riot cops try and tackle today's ferocious clashes. Dramatic pictures show French cops hurling tear gas canisters as they try to calm protesters angry at the high cost of living under President Emmanuel Macron. Cops say there are around 1,500 protesters on the Champs Elysees boulevard alone, while the BBC reports more than 5,000 are in the capital. Authorities say 481 people have already been arrested after police found weapons such as hammers, baseball bats and metal petanque balls on them. AFP OR LICENSORS 40 Riot police stand near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in a cloud of smoke GETTY IMAGES - GETTY 40 Protesters and riot police have clashed at the start of another planned demonstration Some reports suggest 5,000 protesters have descended on Paris Tourist attractions across Paris are closed this weekend amid the protests Police are using snatch squads to seize troublemakers and are more mobile around the city, BBC reports. Authorities in the capital are taking these steps to avoid a repeat of last Saturday's chaos when rioters torched cars on the Champs Elysees boulevard and defaced the Arc de Triomphe monument with graffiti. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on French television: "We will do all we can so that today can be a day without violence, so that the dialogue that we started this week can continue in the best possible circumstances." Culture Minister Franck Riester told RTL radio: "We cannot take the risk when we know the threat", adding that far-right and far-left agitators were planning to hijack rallies by "yellow vest" protesters in the French capital. He said the Louvre museum, Orsay museum, the two operas, and the Grand Palais are among the sites that will be closed alongside the Eiffel Tower a week after rioters looted and defaced the Arc de Triomphe. France is in the grip of civil unrest as dissatisfaction with President Emmanuel Macron grows A dozen armoured cars usually equipped with machine guns are patrolling the French capital as President Macron attempts to deal with civil unrest from the "Yellow Vest" movement. Many shops were boarded up this morning to avoid looting and street furniture and construction site materials have been removed to stop protesters from throwing them. Many arrests have been of people travelling to Paris carrying projectiles rather than at the scene, BBC reports. Interior minister Christophe Castaner warned of "ultra-violent" people joining the riots, just days after tax offices across the country were stormed and petrol-bombed - with one confrontation leading to a protester ramming his tractor into a local government building. He said the riots had "created a monster" and claimed "radical elements" had infiltrated the movement. Many streets in the city centre of Paris are closed to traffic today The Arc de Triomphe is set to be closed after it was vandalised in protests last week. The first attack was in the southern town of Perpignan, when officials were forced to flee their posts after a rioter vowed to "come back with my gun". And 200 tax inspectors in Poiters were escorted out of their building by a battalion of riot cops as protesters yelled "collaborators". Cops in Paris ordered shops and restaurants on the Champs-Elysees to close their doors after intelligence officials said protesters were coming "to smash and to kill" today. There was widespread rioting in Paris last weekend, with national monuments including the Arc de Triomphe vandalised and more than 400 people arrested. Protesters including high school students burn plastic bins at an anti- government demo in Marseille Yesterday a spokesman for President Macron said: "We have reason to fear a great violence this Saturday." The Yellow Vest protesters are planning on more demonstrations despite a humiliating government U-turn on a proposed petrol tax. The group is named after the high visibility jackets that all motorists have to carry in France and originally called for a reduction in the price of diesel and petrol. The once-popular President Macron is now described as “The President of the Rich”, and widely disliked among the French public. The Yellow Vest protesters are planning on more demonstrations despite a humiliating government U-turn on a proposed petrol tax Mr Macron is facing more unrest across France this weekend - despite caving in over his fuel price hike. Last week horrifying images of French police beating up protesters have emerged - inflaming an already tense situation. Mr Macron’s prime minister, Edouard Philippe, said: “What is at stake is the safety of the French people and our institutions. I call for responsibility. “All the actors in the public debate – politicians, union leaders, journalists and citizens – will be accountable for their statements in the coming days.” FRANCE’S riots are the direct result of President Macron’s ocean-going arrogance. Hitting workers with higher fuel taxes and telling them it’s for their own long-term good is typical of him.And after his aggression towards Britain . . . well, these woes couldn’t happen to a nicer bloke, could they?But there is a warning there for us.Exorbitant fuel prices are bad enough. Imagine telling 17.4million voters their victory didn’t count.The Sun warned yesterday that we fear civil disorder if a second referendum is called. Let’s be crystal clear: riots, or worse, are horrific, indefensible and the last thing anyone should want.And we will not shrink from our view that second-vote campaigners are too glib about the forces they may unleash. Tax offices across the country were petrol bombed Some children were forced to kneel facing a concrete wall Social media is currently full of appeals for people to mass around the Champs Elysees in Paris on Saturday, so as to create disorder. It will mean the fourth day of disturbances in a row, leading it to be dubbed “Act 4.” Yesterday cops were forced to round up 153 baby-faced rioters at a single school - with officers forcing kids as young as 12 being to kneel in silence against a wall. Shocking footage shows the officers arresting pupils at the lawless Saint- Exupéry school on the outskirts of Paris. (There are many, many more photos and videos at the website.)
Poster Comment: Vacations in France should be put on indefinite hold. In fact with the riots and the Muslims perhaps France should be visited only through pictures. MACRON has underestimated the protest which is really taking a really bad turn , French people are sick and tired by the fact that with 1200 euros per month they cannot make ends meet. In FRANCE and in BRITAIN there could be a new President and a new Prime Minister in a week's time , a POLITICAL UPHEAVAL.
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#1. To: IbJensen (#0)
I don’t think anybody in France has been killed so far. The French manage to vent their spleen and have massive protests, riots, and even a revolution in 1968 without killing anybody. They’ve got revolution down to an art form. In America or Britain the same level of raging protests would result in a lot of bloodshed.
It's interesting to me that the organizers have come out with this "yellow vest" thing. Looks green to be but the point is that it essentially creates a highly visible uniform for the, well, rebels. I think they are beyond being called protesters at this point. So they are a uniformed rebel resistance. Definitely has a bigger impact than when everyone is just wearing whatever, and you can't tell how many of them there really are.
https://twitter.com/realannapaulina/status/1071523010543280128?s=09
Were next on the Soros 'To Do' list. The way to stop the mayhem in its tracks is to shoot a few of them.....after all, they're terrorists and looters.
Liberals are like Slinkys. They're good for nothing, but somehow they bring a smile to your face as you shove them down the stairs.
We are Americans. We will shoot back.
In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
#2. To: IbJensen (#0)
#3. To: Pinguinite (#2)
#4. To: Vicomte13 (#1)
In America or Britain the same level of raging protests would result in a lot of bloodshed.
#5. To: IbJensen (#4)
Were next on the Soros 'To Do' list. The way to stop the mayhem in its tracks is to shoot a few of them.....after all, they're terrorists and looters.
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