FRANCE LATEST:  ACT 10 OF THE YELLOW VESTS DRAWS LARGE CROWDS TO PARIS, OTHER LOCATIONS, MORE TOMORROW

A record crowd of 10-thousand protesters in Toulouse, France today as the Yellow Vests protests continued.  Protesters focusing on violence against them committed by police with their tear gas and flash ball rounds causing well over one thousand injuries in the last two months or so of protest.

"Castaner the butcher, mutilated France" 

was the shout from the crowd in Toulouse calling out the name of Interior Minister Christophe Castaner.

In Bourg-en-Bresse, France the police officers carrying weapons firing flashballs were equipped with cameras.

The official national estimate from the government is 84-thousand, which is exactly the number it reported last week.   The Yellow Vests are setting up their own system of accounting crowds.

Predominately peaceful demonstrations across the county with only 42 arrests in Paris.

Police resorting to attacking the protesters at the Invalides in Paris late in the day  with water cannon and tear gas.   The Invalides, site of Napoleon's tomb, is where the protest march started and ended in Paris.

The Associated Press reported demonstrators throwing projectiles at the end of today's Paris protest and knocking down a traffic light.

Seven thousand protesters claimed in Paris by the authorities, with four thousand reported in Bordeaux.

Other cities cited as protest locations include:

Toulon
Nancy
Rennes
Montpellier
Angers
Nantes
Dijon
Tours

Protesters at Dijon went to the prison to demand release of other protesters arrested in previous protests..

For French President Emmanuel Macron hopes that his "debate" meetings would draw crowds this weekend away from street protests appear to have come up short.

More protests including women's Yellow Vest protests set for tomorrow.


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