FRANCE BREAKING: MACRON BLASTS 'HATE CROWD' IN YELLOW VESTS, VESTS JOIN NEW YEAR'S CELEBRATION
In his end of the year message at 8pm local time tonight French President Emmanuel Macron denounced the "hateful crowd" among the Yellow Vests protesters.
He denounced those who use the protest as an "excuse to speak on behalf of the people" and those who:
"attack the elected officials, the police the journalists, Jews, foreigners, homosexuals"
Macron also trashed 'misinformation' being spread about issues like migration and the recently approved UN agreement on migration in Marrakesh, Morocco.
Macron said from henceforth that order in regards to protests would be applied:
"Without compromise"
Reacting to his speech online, leader of the National Rally Marine Le Pen tweeted:
"The president is an imposter"
"And a pyromaniac"
For the Left, leader Jean-Luc Melenchon's tweet in part was:
"We do not know why but everything he says falls flat"
Macron's credibility under question during the holiday period with new revelations about his former bodyguard Alexandre Benalla. There was a storm of controversy over Benalla including his beating of protesters during a May Day demonstration as he dressed up as an ordinary policeman to face the protesters.
Even after Benalla lost his job with the French president, he was travelling around with diplomatic passports and even visited the African nation of Chad early in December just weeks before Macron was there.
Over the weekend it was revealed that Benalla was in communication with Macron online since he left his bodyguard job using encrypted messages.
Yellow Vests called for a festive and non violent protest in Paris tonight and at least one yellow banner with "1789, 1968 and 2018" on it was seen in the crowd at 1015 pm local time tonight in Paris.
Yellow Vests were in the crowd on the Champs-Elysses estimated at 250-thousand with one vest reading "GO MACRON" as in urging him to leave office.
Yellow Vests also occupied the Aquitaine Bridge in Bordeaux to bring in the New Year. They faced off with riot police there.
There was a police and military deployment of some 147-thousand personnel across France for New Year's Eve.
Yellow Vests were in the crowd on the Champs-Elysses estimated at 250-thousand with one vest reading "GO MACRON" as in urging him to leave office.
Yellow Vests also occupied the Aquitaine Bridge in Bordeaux to bring in the New Year. They faced off with riot police there.
There was a police and military deployment of some 147-thousand personnel across France for New Year's Eve.
(EDITED MONDAY PM WITH MORE DETAILS, REACTION)
(INFORMATION FROM BFM-TV VIA GOOGLE TRANSLATION ALSO USED IN POST)
(INFORMATION FROM BFM-TV VIA GOOGLE TRANSLATION ALSO USED IN POST)
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