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.
"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"
(ADDITIONAL MATERIAL ADDED LATE WEDNESDAY AND EARLY THURSDAY)
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