Saturday, April 13, 2019

FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 22:  PROTEST NUMBERS UP ACCORDING TO POLICE, YELLOW VESTS


31,000 protesters estimated by the government this week, just over 80,000 by the Yellow Vests.

In Paris the authorities gave 5000 as the number of protesters.   The police stopped and checked people 9473 times in Paris according to their figures.    They made 27 arrests there. 

In among the protesters the leader of the Left political party in France, Jean-Luc Melenchon of "France Insubordinate".   Melenchon tweeted he was there to defend "public freedoms" and the "right to protest"

In the north at Lille more than 1000 Yellow Vests, prohibited from demonstrating in the city center.  Video link........ LILLE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 22     Police used tear gas on them in the end.

1,300 Yellow Vests were in Bordeaux with a large contingent of police surrounding them. Video at the link.....BORDEAUX WEEK 22 YELLOW VESTS

In Strasbourg, one of the places that the European Parliament meets, some 650 Yellow Vests with signs like "Macron Dismissal" and "Frexit + RIC" referring to leaving the European Union and to the "Citizen Initiative Referendum".

Tear gas and water cannon used in Toulouse, which was designated at the "captial" of the Yellow Vests for the 22nd week of protests.    The protest there infliltrated by the "black blocs" of anarchists.  Video Link........TOULOUSE WEEK 22 YELLOW VESTS

A longer video of events in Toulouse today nearly three hours.....WEEK 22 YELLOW VESTS TOULOUSE FULL VIDEO

Speaking at a meeting on Saturday, Marine Le Pen of the National Rally, France's leading opposition politician says that President Emmanuel Macron sees the Yellow Vests as "bullets" to be dodged and "dead weight" to be put behind him.   BFM-TV video at the link......MARINE LE PEN ON MACRON AND YELLOW VESTS 4/13/2019

Macron will lay out policy in response to the Yellow Vests in the days ahead as the political campaign for the European Parliament elections next month moves into higher gear.

Video links below.....


RUPTLY VIDEO WEEK 22 YELLOW VESTS PARIS

IRANIAN PRESS TV REPORTS ON DISPARITY OF NUMBERS 4/12/2019 BEFORE THIS WEEKS PROTESTS



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