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Post by Admin on Dec 22, 2018 18:01:46 GMT
LIVE: ‘Yellow Vest’ protests hit Paris for the sixth consecutive week - Part 3 Ruptly Small demonstrations by "yellow-vest" protesters have been seen throughout France for a sixth consecutive Saturday, but not on the scale of the ones seen in recent weeks.  About 800 people were demonstrating in Paris at around noon (11:00 GMT), compared to about 4,000 demonstrators at the same time last Saturday. Some 65 people have been arrested in the capital so far, reports say.  A man died in southern France, bringing the total death toll to 10. His car hit a truck at a roadblock near Perpignan overnight on Friday, the authorities said on Saturday. |
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Post by Admin on Dec 28, 2018 20:36:03 GMT
 The "yellow vest" anti-government protests that have rocked France will be held on Saturday and New Year's Eve, and continue into 2019, several sources in the movement have said. "The yellow vests are still mobilised," said Laetitia Dewalle, one spokeswoman of the protest movement which does not have a traditional leadership structure.  Several of the movement's representatives said a seventh straight Saturday of protests will take place across the country this weekend. Yellow-vest representative Benjamin Cauchy said protesters would be out on New Year's Eve as well, "to show that the mobilisation will not end in the new year". Cauchy also warned that if the concessions made so far by President Emmanuel Macron did not add up, "we will end up with a large-scale mobilisation in late January". |
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Post by Admin on Dec 31, 2018 18:01:05 GMT
LIVE ‘‘Yellow Vest’ protests hit Paris for the seventh week in a row'
Yellow vest protesters marched on the headquarters of leading French broadcasters Saturday, as small groups turned out Saturday in Paris and around France despite waning momentum for their movement.
Hundreds of demonstrators, some chanting "Journalists - Collaborationists!" traced a path around Paris visiting the central offices of television networks BFM and state-run France Televisions and announced plans to march to other broadcasters.
Dozens of protesters tried to march Saturday on the elegant, tourist-filled Champs-Elysees — scene of repeated recent clashes between police and demonstrators — but were peacefully turned away by security forces. Both police and protesters appeared to be out in much smaller numbers than previous weekends.
The holiday season and winter chill may have put a damper on Saturday's turnout, along with a raft of concessions by Macron to calm the movement after rioting nearly reached his presidential palace earlier this month.
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Post by Admin on Jan 12, 2019 17:55:34 GMT
Yellow Vest protesters are demonstrating for the ninth week in a row in Paris on Saturday, January 12. Last Saturday, around 50,000 protesters demonstrated on the streets of various French cities. In Paris, French government spokesperson Benjamin Griveaux was evacuated from his offices as protesters seized an abandoned forklift and rammed it into the building’s front entrance. In other demonstrations, protests were met with tear gas as rioters burned cars and set barricades on fire. The French government has now suspended prices hikes, risen wages for low-income earners and cut taxes for pensioners, but protests continue nevertheless.  |
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Post by Admin on Jan 19, 2019 17:41:19 GMT
Yellow Vest’ protesters are demonstrating in Paris on Saturday, January 19 for the tenth week in a row. The Yellow Vest movement emerged spontaneously in November 2018 after French President Emmanuel Macron announced controversial hikes in fuel prices to encourage a transition towards greener energy. Despite the French government suspending the prices hikes and announcing increases to the minimum wage, protests have continued.  Over 2,000 people have been arrested since the demonstrations began and 10 have died, the vast majority of the deaths being due to collisions between protesters and vehicles. |
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