[martin14]

Week 11, another shooting by police.


French protest leader 'will be disabled for life' after eye injury: Yellow Vest activist is put in coma after he is struck the in face by rubber bullet amid calls for 'mass uprising' against Macron

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
Jerome Rodrigues hit in the right eye with either a police flash ball or grenade
Yellow Vest leader has been placed in an artificial coma, his lawyer confirmed
He is likely to be handicapped for life after incident in Place de la Bastille, Paris
Anti-government protesters called for 'mass uprising' against President Macron

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... mself.html

[martin14]

Week 13


Yellow Vest activist's HAND is torn off amid horrific scenes of violence between police and protesters in Paris - after France's President of the National Assembly's country home is firebombed

Tear gas and baton charges were used around the Champs Elysee in Paris in the 13th consecutive weekend
Businesses were shut as Yellow Vests mobilised across the county to protest Emmanuel Macron's government
Armoured cars containing chemical weapons and water canons were being used to patrol demonstration


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... d-row.html

[martin14]

Week 18, in case anyone forgot.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... shops.html

[martin14]

Paris police chief sacked.

French PM has the solution to the Yellow Vests... he will just ban the protesters.





















I smell a new PM soon.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... sters.html

[BartSimpson]

I like how the media every single week predicts the end of the Yellow Vest Movement yet every week the Yellow Vests come back for more.

[martin14]

Week 24...

Yellow Vest riots erupt in France for the 24th 'Day of Rage' in a row as police fire tear gas to break up anti-Macron protests

Riot police unleashed tear gas on protesters in Strasbourg today as they surrounded European Parliament
Fights happened despite €5million measures proposed by Emmanuel Macron on their 24th day of protest
Macron said: 'Deep reform is needed to address the deep sense of fiscal, social and provincial injustice'

[DrCaleb]

martin14 martin14:

Macron said: 'Deep reform is needed to address the deep sense of fiscal, social and provincial injustice'

Whhhhaaaat?


You mean protests are an effective means of social change? Who would have thunk it?

[BartSimpson]

More Yellow Vest protests this past weekend.

And yet more insistence from the media that the movement is dying.

[Martin15]

Macron caves in: French government offers to scrap plan to raise pension age to 64 after weeks of rioting and crippling strikes - as Paris burns yet again

French government has offered to withdraw plan to raise pension age by two years in compromise to unions
The message was delivered as thousands of protesters took to the streets for 38th day of protests andstrikes
The moderate CFDT union welcomed 'the withdrawal of the pivot age' from the controversial bill

[DrCaleb]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Whhhhaaaat?

You mean protests are an effective means of social change? Who would have thunk it?

What are you blathering on about, you crazy old coot? Protests are not the way to affect social change! That must be done at the voting booth!

[CharlesAnthony]

Martin15 Martin15:

Macron caves in:

TRANSLATION: The agent provocateurs and les casseurs have completed their mission...... now, throw pop-corn to the monkeys and move on to Phase 2 of the plan.

[Martin15]

Firefighters and police battle EACH OTHER on the streets of Paris: Astonishing scenes as riot cops clash with their emergency worker colleagues who are demanding better pensions

Baton-wielding officers clashed in a bitter row with firefighters in Paris today
Firemen were in the city to protest against Macron's planned pension reforms
‘The police responded with tear gas, and then went in with their batons. The fighting got very ugly,’ said one eye witness

[BartSimpson]

More on that topic>>>

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... is-protest

[BartSimpson]

And yet more from two minutes ago:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 06566.html

[DrCaleb]

Martin15 Martin15:

Firefighters and police battle EACH OTHER on the streets of Paris: Astonishing scenes as riot cops clash with their emergency worker colleagues who are demanding better pensions

Good for them. Another example of business offloading costs to the government.

Remember when companies had to provide for the retirement of their employees? Then they lobbied to end that practice, instead getting tax credits for contributing to RRSPs (401ks') and offloading the boomer generation onto the public system.

Yay us!