Saturday, September 14, 2019

FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 44: 




Its Week 44 of the Yellow Vests protests in France and this week finds the movement coming off a "revitalized week" after the summer slowdown in France.     Some 16,307 protesters counted at 157 locations last week by the "Yellow Number" Facebook page.


The background of today's protests include a transit workers strike on Friday, the incident Thursday where a local police chief in the Sevran area suspended an officer for attacking a man only to be overruled by Paris and the discovery of molotov cocktails in the center of Nantes.

Nantes expected to be a center of protest today.

The actions of the police and the death of Steve Maia Canico that followed at a music festival in that city drawing the attention of protesters.


We now have live multiplex video of today's protests from various cities....


LIVE MULTIPLEX YELLOW VESTS WEEK 44


This video of a small gathering of Yellow Vests at Fumel in southwestern France.....LINK

This live video from Paris at the Porte de Choisy with some 500 protesters reported in the city with others protesting at Orly in the Paris region against the privatization of airports in Paris.....ORLY AIRPORT PROTEST-RT


PARIS YELLOW VESTS WEEK 44 LIVE VIDEO


Also live video from the Yellow Vests protest in Toulouse today......


TOULOUSE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 44 LIVE VIDEO


Now from "Sputnik" the live video from Nantes where there are expectations of black blocs violence...


SPUTNIK VIDEO NANTES LIVE VIDEO WEEK  44


The official estimate from Nantes is of some 1900 protesters today with 35 arrests reported as of Saturday evening.  18 of those arrested taken into preventive custody before the demonstration began.   The protest in Nantes an undeclared and "illegal" one with much of it focused on the death of Steve Maia Canico that followed a police assault on a music festival in Nantes back in June that was creating a disturbance making noise at 430 in the morning.

Confrontations between the demonstrators dominated by the black of the anarchists as opposed to the Yellow of the Yellow Vests and the police.    Tear gas clouds in the streets of Nantes by late afternoon.   Video from "Russia Today" of the confrontation.....NANTES-RT VIDEO


From other parts of France Aix en Provence saw a demonstration involving a couple of hundred Yellow Vests.....YELLOW VESTS AIX EN PROVENCE 9/14/2019

A video from Toulouse today showing Yellow Vests, its a five minute video.....YELLOW VESTS TOULOUSE VIDEO 9/14/2019

The Yellow Vests on the streets of Marseille today in the hundreds.......MARSEILLE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 44.....Some more Marseille video of the protesters on the move.....MARSEILLE WEEK 44 YELLOW VESTS

Yellow Vests protests are outside the cities and in the roots of the protest movement a protest against privatized toll roads with blockages of toll stations to allow free use of highways.   This video from a distance was posted of a blockage today.......YELLOW VESTS TOLL ROAD BLOCKAGE

Video from today's Yellow Vest demonstration in Bordeaux.....YELLOW VESTS BORDEAUX WEEK 44

And the picture that emerges today is one of continued protests calling for things like the "RIC" the "Citizens Initiative Referendum" and for the resignation of President Emmanuel Macron.    The "black blocs" of anarchists designate a site to congregate and fight police with their tactics.

But the peaceful Yellow Vests continue their protests with numbers at least in the tens of thousands nationwide and we shall see what happens as we move into fall.












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