Saturday, August 1, 2020

FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 90: GOVERNMENT SHAKE UP

FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 90:  GOVERNMENT SHAKE UP




President Emmanuel Macron's new Prime Minister in France Jean Castex shaking up government with his new Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin considered a man of the "Right" but while the man in charge of the police gets the "Right" label that's not the case for the new Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti.


His support for a ban on the National Rally in 2015 drawing a response from that party's leader Marine Le Pen.      She described Dupond-Moretti as a:


"an extreme left activist"



In the department of Sarthe west of Paris where Le Mans is located a Yellow Vests protest today with banners hung on the side of a highway overpass......




YELLOW VESTS WEEK 90 SARTHE FRANCE




This morning the Yellow Vests taking to a traffic circle for a traditional type of protest that marked the beginnings of the Yellow Vests.......




YELLOW VESTS TRAFFIC CIRCLE PROTEST 8/1/2020




Ternoise posting the weekly Yellow Vests video today........




TERNOISE YELLOW VESTS VIDEO WEEK 90 8/1/2020




Many weeks ago the government and police banned protesting on the Champs Elysees in Paris and at the Arc de Triomphe but today a few Yellow Vests were there and they made this video...




YELLOW VESTS ROND-POINT DE L' ETOILE-ARC DE TRIOMPHE 8/1/2020 WEEK 90 YELLOW VESTS






And a Saturday evening Yellow Vests gathering at a toll station at Lisieux in Normandy.   Toll stations being one of the traditional sites of protest for Yellow Vests objecting to privatized highways and the taxation of the tolls the people are forced to pay......





YELLOW VESTS TOLL STATION LISIEUX,FRANCE WEEK 90 8/1/2020




And that's the story of the Yellow Vests for Week 90 in the midst of  summer in France with hot weather and hot changes in the government amidst the coronavirus situation.





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