Wednesday, January 2, 2019

FRANCE BREAKING:  YELLOW VESTS PROTEST FIGURE ARRESTED WEDNESDAY NIGHT IN PARIS


Eric Drouet, one of the visible figures of the Yellow Vests protest movement, was arrested near the Palace de la Concorde in Paris at 9pm local time Wednesday.

He is accused of "undeclared protest" as the Google translation puts it.  Drouet was enroute to meet other protesters in the city.


His arrest follows President Emmanuel Macron's tough New Year's Eve message about "hate" coming from the ranks of the Yellow Vests.  Macron promised order:

"without compromise" 


in France in the coming year.


Others were arrested with Drouet.   He was taken away under arrest by a swarm of police.


Drouet's lawyer told BFM-TV:


"It is an unjustified arrest, it is a practice of another country and another time"


Interviewed on RTL Radio in France Thursday morning Benjamin Cauchy of the "Free Yellow Vests" faction said that:

"Mr. Castaner (The Interior Minister in charge of police) and Mr. Macron decided to suppress and mock the word of the people"


Cauchy compared  the arrest of Drouet to putting alcohol on a barbecue and he expects anger to be restarted in the country as a result.

He said the Drouet arrest is the result of Macron's:

"considering us as a hate crowd"


Link below to video of the arrest.....


ERIC DROUET ARREST

(ADDITIONAL MATERIAL ADDED LATE WEDNESDAY AND EARLY THURSDAY)

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