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Re: Chaos in France

#21 Post by OFSO » Tue Feb 05, 2019 8:06 pm

The Italian "government" (one party or the other in an ungainly partnership) sent representatives to Paris for discussions with the Yellow Jackets yesterday. One wonders what the subjects discussed were.

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#22 Post by Capetonian » Tue Feb 05, 2019 11:06 pm

I would imagine that they would revolve around whether their vehicles should have 8 or 12 reverse gears.

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#23 Post by OFSO » Thu Feb 07, 2019 3:41 pm

France has recalled its ambassador from Italy in a reprisal for the latter's meeting with the French yellow jackets. In turn, the Italian government has invited yellow jacket leaders to Rome for further discussions. Emperor Macron is reported to be less than pleased.

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#24 Post by Capetonian » Sun Feb 10, 2019 2:29 am

French 'yellow vest' protester loses fingers in violent unrest

A "yellow vest" protester in France had his fingers ripped off during clashes at the parliament building in Paris, as the protests went into their 13th week. The protester attempted to pick up a rubber pellet grenade and it exploded in his hand, French media reported. There was also an arson attack on the home of the head of France's National Assembly, though it was not clear if the attack was linked to the protests.

The "yellow vest" protests began in mid-November over fuel taxes. They have since broadened into a revolt against the President, Emmanuel Macron, and a political class seen as out of touch with common people.

According to French government figures, 51,400 people joined the protests on Saturday, 4,000 of them in Paris. That was down from the previous week, when official figures put the number at 58,600, 10,500 in Paris. Representatives for the yellow vests disputed the previous week's numbers, claiming the turnout was higher.

In Paris on Saturday, the protesters marched from the Champs-Elysees to the city's parliament buildings, where a violent contingent broke down barriers and threw projectiles at police. Police responded with tear gas and anti-riot munitions.

According to an eyewitness, the person who lost their hand was a photographer attempting to take pictures of people breaking down barriers around the National Assembly building. "When the cops went to disperse people, he got hit by a sting-ball grenade in the calf," 21-year-old Cyprien Royer told AFP news agency. "He wanted to bat it away so it didn't explode by his leg and it went off when he touched it. "We put him to one side and called the street medics. It wasn't pretty: he was screaming with pain, he had no fingers - he didn't have much above the wrist."

Paris police confirmed that a demonstrator was injured in the hand and been treated by paramedics, but did not identify the victim.

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Re: Chaos in France

#25 Post by OFSO » Sun Feb 10, 2019 6:37 am

Learned that back in "Keine Startbahn West" days. Never touch police munition cannisters of any sort. Tear gas cannisters get extremely hot, for example. In fact cowardice is your best master and stay away.

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#26 Post by OFSO » Sat Feb 16, 2019 9:57 am

Just took taxi across Paris. Amazing show of force, police everywhere, small armoured cars, roads closed off, mobile barriers to push demonstrators along. Shops In the expensive Rue Faubourg area all shuttered, Boulevard Haussman likewise, no bars or restaurants open. Our taxi driver said 'its like a war zone'. 'Like' ?

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#27 Post by Capetonian » Sat Feb 16, 2019 10:03 am

I've asked before, and I ask again, why would these French peasants destroy their nation, their social systems, their livelihood? Government employees can retire 5 years before they even started working on a full pension, funded by people who work hard and have their wealth taken off them by the destructive and pernicious disease that is socialism.

I could understand if it were that latter group that comprised the yellowbacks, but it's not.

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#28 Post by Slasher » Sat Feb 16, 2019 10:20 am

Ffrench mindset I'd say Cape. I heard somewhere a Frog peasant is happy to sit in sh!t his whole life as long as he has a bottle of la vin rouge and a pretty domestic animal to f**k - with a generous egalitarian pension when he puts his feet up. Higher taxes to the point of poverty doesn't quite fit into the plan.

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Re: Chaos in France

#29 Post by OFSO » Sat Feb 16, 2019 2:26 pm

Our cleaner's young daughter lives in Bordeaux, says just like Paris, a war zone. Quote: "going on and on about Brexit while their own country is falling apart behind them."

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Re: Chaos in France

#30 Post by OFSO » Sun Feb 24, 2019 6:54 pm

Things better left unsaid.

Macron (yesterday): "I intend to push ahead with my reforms, unless they stop me by shooting me with a bullet".

Don't tempt fate, Emmanuel.

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Re: Chaos in France

#31 Post by Woody » Wed Feb 27, 2019 6:57 am

The ffrench are revolting :D

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#32 Post by BenThere » Wed Feb 27, 2019 5:29 pm

As everywhere, the biggest threats to the people are the inroads left wing entities around the world are incessantly trying to achieve. When their efforts inevitably fail in one area, such as global warming or Venezuela, they move on to another. What they want is more taxation, control of the population, and the elimination of anyone who opposes them.

I'm totally opposed to all that, and I think the biggest reason they hate President Trump is because he is, too.

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#33 Post by Rwy in Sight » Fri Mar 08, 2019 8:31 pm

Macron take on Europe's rather EU problems for-european-renewal. It hurts to read how far from ordinary citizen he is.

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Re: Chaos in France

#34 Post by OFSO » Sat Mar 16, 2019 4:49 pm

Smaller crowd today but worse riots in Paris. Fouquet's restaurant destroyed, bank set on fire and apartment block above bank, many cars torched, cobblestones ripped up and used to smash shop windows, teargas and water cannon in use. About time Macron imposed martial law.

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#35 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sat Mar 16, 2019 4:52 pm

Obviously celebrating 17-25 win ove r Italy

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#36 Post by Capetonian » Sat Mar 16, 2019 6:01 pm

The Italians must have surrendered.

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Re: Chaos in France

#37 Post by Woody » Sat Mar 16, 2019 8:05 pm

Capetonian wrote:
Sat Mar 16, 2019 6:01 pm
The Italians must have surrendered.
They usually do :D
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Re: Chaos in France

#38 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Sat Mar 16, 2019 8:33 pm

No, the Italians retreat or change sides; it's the French who surrender. Some will note the French national flag used to be plain white. The Germans still think it is ;)))

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Re: Chaos in France

#39 Post by OFSO » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:42 pm

France has two national flags, one for Paris and a second one for the rest of France.

They are, of course, both white.

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#40 Post by Capetonian » Sun Mar 17, 2019 9:00 am

Unrest returns to Paris with worst yellow vest violence in weeks

Anti-government protesters hurled rocks and paving slabs at police, looted boutiques, smashed up a luxury restaurant on Paris’s famed Champs-Elysées and set a bank on fire on Saturday.

A mother and her baby trapped on the second floor of the building, as flames surged up from the bank branch on the ground floor, were rescued by firefighters. The bank offices were gutted and 11 people were slightly injured, including two police officers.

Smoke and tear gas shrouded the Champs-Elysées and at least 109 people were arrested in the worst outbreak of violence on the fringes of a “yellow vest” demonstration in Paris for several weeks.

President Emmanuel Macron has cut short his skiing holiday to return to Paris to chair an emergency meeting over what the authorities are describing as "intolerable violence and damage".

Christophe Castaner, the interior minister, tweeted that those who set the bank on fire “are neither demonstrators nor troublemakers: they are killers.”

Grinning “yellow vest” protesters posed for photographs in front of the shattered facade of Le Fouquet’s, a restaurant that earned Nicolas Sarkozy the nickname of “President Bling-bling” when he celebrated his 2007 election victory there.

Much of the violence on the 18th consecutive Saturday of protests against President Macron’s economic reforms was blamed on anarchists, far-Right and ultra-leftist agitators rather than the “yellow vests” themselves.

Police estimated the number of demonstrators at about 32,000 across France. About 5,000 police officers were deployed in Paris alone. The numbers of protesters have dwindled since the “yellow vest” movement began in November, amid growing anger over income inequality and a lack of public services in rural areas and small towns.

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