FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 49:  11,500 ESTIMATED PROTESTING AT MORE THAN 200 LOCATIONS

The Yellow Vests continue to come out every Saturday in France with a major anniversary weekend planned for the weekend of November 16th and 17th.

For now Yellow Vests in numbers estimated between 15 and 20 thousand have been on the streets and the highways and byways of France in recent weeks.

Police in France are stressed and strained by working conditions that have included massive overtime to deal with Yellow Vests protests in the past 11 months and at Givors a sickout by the entire night shift of police officers Thursday night in protest at working conditions.

A new development in the ranks of French police the terrorist attack by an IT employee who was a Salafist Muslim just weeks ago.    The attack led to some discipline in police ranks and the backlash of at least one Muslim officer in those ranks saying he felt "stigmatized".


And now video from Paris of Week 49 of the Yellow Vests.


YELLOW VESTS WEEK 49 PARIS


The focus of the protest is media and the government's France Televisions the site of protest.

A big story in the media today is the rail strike affecting the French railroad system.

The live video stream from Toulouse today.


YELLOW VESTS TOULOUSE LIVE


Also a shorter piece a four minute video of the Yellow Vests in Toulouse today....LINK


The Yellow Vests protest in Toulouse went to a fire station in solidarity with the grievances of firefighters and then made some smoke on the streets of the city.....LINK


Video from the Yellow Vests in Lille in northern France today......


YELLOW VESTS WEEK 49 LILLE

A BIG MARCH OF YELLOW VESTS ON THE SPANISH BORDER TODAY THE BORDER WITH CATALONIA WHERE MASS PROTESTS FOR INDEPENDENCE UNDERWAY THIS WEEK AFTER LEADERS OF REGION IMPRISONED BY THE SPANISH SUPREME COURT.

THE YELLOW VESTS BLOCKING THE A9 AUTOROUTE BETWEEN FRANCE AND CATALONIA......

FRANCE-CATALONIA BORDER YELLOW VESTS WEEK 49


Events elsewhere in the world and even in France overshadowing Yellow Vests in mainstream media coverage today.

But in Rouen the Yellow Vests were on the streets today as presented in this 38 minute video..


YELLOW VESTS WEEK 49 ROUEN 10/19/2019


Hundreds on the march in Montpellier with signs in support of firefighters and eventually a confrontation with police illustrated in this ten minute video as the tear gas begins around seven minutes in......


YELLOW VESTS WEEK 49 MONTPELLIER



A gathering of Yellow Vests in Tours today.....



YELLOW VESTS WEEK 49 TOURS


Boredaux also the scene of a Yellow Vests protest with a banner hung from a building and a protest clearly about Turkey and the Kurds in support of the Kurds......


YELLOW VESTS-KURDISH PROTEST BORDEAUX 10/19/2019


The protest in Belfort, France today with trade union banners of the CGT in the crowd....


YELLOW VESTS BELFORT-TRADE UNIONISTS 10/19/2019


And finally a short two minute video of the protest in Paris outside France Televisions.....


PARIS YELLOW VESTS WEEK 49


Again the Yellow Vests continued in France today and the numbers seem steady enough and we get specifics from the "Yellow Number" Facebook in the days ahead and will add it to this post.

The notion of 15-20 thousand protesters seems to be the rough estimate based on what the videos give us from the various locations today.

And in the end the "Yellow Number" Facebook estimate was 11,500 Yellow Vests at over 200 locations for Week 49 of the Yellow Vests.