BREAKING NEWS:  FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 28 ON A VERY POLITICAL WEEKEND WITH 12, 500 ACCORDING TO GOVERNMENT, 35,000 PLUS ACCORDING TO YELLOW VESTS

(THIS POST WILL BE UPDATED INTO SATURDAY EVENING WITH A WRAPUP)

(FRIDAY EVENING)

24 hours before France goes to the polls in the European Parliament elections the Yellow Vests will again take to the streets of France.

The numbers are down.  Both the government and the Yellow Vests Facebook "The Yellow Number" agree but their statistics are vastly different.

15,500 if you believe the government's version of Week 27 but 42,128 at 274 locations according to the Yellow Vests number.

What will the numbers be this week remains to be seen.

On the political front National Rally leader Marine Le Pen appealed for Yellow Vests support during the past week arguing that opponents of President Emmanuel Macron can send him a clear message by voting for her party on Sunday.

Le Pen said that Macron:

"is already behaving in a totalitarian way"

She also took a swipe at the Left party in France of Jean-Luc Melenchon dubbing his "Insubordinate France" Party as:

"Islamist France"

Latest polling data from five sources shows a two percentage point lead for the National Rally of Le Pen over the La Republique En March party of President Emmanuel.

(ALSO IN THE MIX THE BOMB EXPLOSION IN LYON FRIDAY EVENING THAT INJURED 13 WITH THE GOVERNMENT NOT IMMEDIATELY CALLING IT TERRORISM EVEN AS  ANTI-TERRORISM POLICE AND PROSECUTORS ARE INVOLVED IN THE CASE)

Video link:

BFM-TV LIVE VIDEO



(2 AM EASTERN, 8 AM  FRANCE)


The situation in Paris today will be much like the usual norm with bans on protest on the Champs-Elysees and at Notre Dame Cathedral.

Protests in the city planned on social media.

But Jerome Rodrigues, media figure of the Yellow Vests, injured in the eye by police during an earlier protest is promoting the notion of a surprise protest in Paris this Saturday.

Protests not announced in advance are considered illegal in France.

In a move that mirrors what the Maduro regime in Venezuela does to disrupt opposition protests, nine metro (subway) stations will be closed in  Paris today starting at this time.


(430 AM EASTERN, 1030 AM FRANCE)


Here's that Jerome Rodrigues video teasing the notion of an unannounced spontaneous protest in Paris today.   He mentions a variety of locations in the French capital.....JEROME RODRIGUES TWITTER VIDEO




The link to the Ruptly video stream is here.   No video yet but when something is happening in Paris it will appear....


RUPTLY VIDEO YELLOW VESTS PARIS WEEK 28


(6AM EASTERN, 12 NOON FRANCE)

As we take a break to come back later word that the procession got underway at 1130 am in Paris and there's word of other events in locations like Amiens, Lyon, Toulouse and Montpellier.

The march in Amiens of Yellow Vests got underway at 9am this morning,

Video now from Paris showing some sort of activity in the city, a live stream for what its worth.
There are police at the ready in their riot gear here,....


GILETS JAUNES ACTE 28 LIVE STREAM PARIS


(725 AM EASTERN, 125 PM FRANCE)


This live stream up right now apparently from Paris with Jerome Rodrigues name on its source.....


YELLOW VESTS LIVE STREAM


(830 AM EASTERN, 230 PM FRANCE)


There is a live stream up now from the Yellow Vests gathering in the port of Marseille....GILETS JAUNES ACTE 28 MARSEILLE



The video from Amiens and a major gathering of Yellow Vests today.....AMIENS YELLOW VESTS 5/25/2019


And another live stream up from Paris.....


DIRECT (LIVE)- GILETS JAUNES (YELLOW VESTS) PARIS


That is it for now.   Back with more this evening inside this post.


(5 PM EASTERN TIME, 11 PM FRANCE)


The government's estimate for Week 28 is 12,500 Yellow Vests protesters but the "Yellow Number" on Facebook put the number at 35,104.

In Paris the government says that 2,100 were involved in the protests.

A group of hundred or so people without Yellow Vests were trying to approach the forbidden area of protest on the Champs-Elysees and the Place de l'Etoile surrounding the Arc de Triomphe.

The police moved in and used tear gas to disperse the group honoring a social media call for an undeclared protest.

Some anarchists interjected themselves into the main protest in Paris when it ended late in the afternoon.    Also a blockade was attempted by several dozen protesters with barricades at the Place of the Bastille around 7 pm.

At Amiens the government's estimate was 1,200 for what was billed as a major protest today.    The organizers estimate some 2,000.


(8 PM EASTERN TIME, 2 AM FRANCE)


2,000 Yellow Vests protesting in Toulouse.....TOULOUSE YELLOW VESTS 5/25/2019... and some 950 reported in Montpellier.....MONTPELLIER YELLOW VESTS 5/25/2019

850 Yellow Vests gathered in Strasbourg and 600 in Dijon.....LINK

In Lyon the site of yesterdays bombing attack some 500 Yellow Vests were reported on the march....GILETS JAUNES (YELLOW VESTS ACTE 28 LYON

Yellow Vests demonstrations continued in Bordeaux with some 500 rallying Saturday.   The video here shows confrontation on the streets....BORDEAUX YELLOW VESTS 5/25/2019

In the north of France, Lille was also the site of a Yellow Vests gathering....YELLOW VESTS WEEK 28 LILLE

And more Yellow Vests gathered in Nantes today sitting down at an intersection......LINK

The Yellow Vests continued to voice their opposition to President Emmanuel Macron's taxation policies and pro-business agenda etc. etc. etc.

Tomorrow, Sunday, the voters will have a say on his presidency as they vote in the European Parliament elections.