FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 53:  ANNIVERSARY WEEKEND PROTEST, GOVERNMENT SAYS 28-THOUSAND INVOLVED, 44-THOUSAND ACCORDING TO YELLOW VESTS, MARINE LE PEN SAYS GOVERNMENT "USEFUL" TO ANARCHISTS

This weekend designated as an anniversary protest for the Yellow Vests.

Earlier in the week BFM-TV rolled out a poll saying that 63 percent of those polled did not want to see the Yellow Vests protests regenerate in France.

A call for a protest on the Champs-Elysees in Paris today but police imposing a protest ban there on Friday.

Also talk from activist Eric Drouet for a protest on the ring road around Paris.

Plus an event involving a march in the streets today and another street march planned tomorrow in the capital city.

Plenty of other issues on the table in France nowadays that move beyond the "green" taxes on gasoline.

President Emmanuel Macron determined to roll through pension reform in another sign of cost cutting austerity that will impact the average person in France.

Railroad workers already taking limited strike actions leading up to a major strike planned for December 5th.

Macron also insistent on having his way with the restoration of the fire gutted Notre Dame Cathedral.
Both he and the man he's put in charge, General  Jean-Louis Georgelin insisting on the new spire of  the cathedral being "contemporary" instead of ancient.

Georgelin saying that the architect Philippe Villeneuve, who's publicly expressed his disagreement with a modern spire,   should "shut his mouth".

More on this as published by the BBC.......LINK


Protests called for across France including a toll station blockage in Bordeaux and a join march with environmentalists in Lille.

At the Place d'Italie in Paris Yellow Vests already gathered and RT is broadcasting in French.....LINK

A live stream multiplex  video...... LINK....also available.....

The Sputnik video stream from Paris is also operating......LINK

The black uniforms of the anarchists, the "black blocs",  prominent in Paris in the video being streamed mid-day.  Rocks being thrown at a shopping area.

As of 8 pm Paris time some 147 arrests reported as the black blocs and police tangled in the Place D'Italie.     This one minute video shows the chaos as the fight was underway...LINK

Later in the evening a police car overturned outside the Paris police headquarters and earlier in the day the vandalism of the Marshal Juin monument at the Place D'Italie.   Juin commanded French troops who fought with the Allies in Italy during World War II

Video from BFM-TV of the protest on the ring road around Paris today....LINK

Yellow Vests gathering in other places outside Paris today like this traffic circle in Mans....LINK

Also in Brest today a gathering alongside a highway and this two hour video shows a participant traveling to the protest and then he actual protest itself along a highway....LINK

Video of the Yellow Vests in Bordeaux today albeit sideways via phone.....LINK  A longer 15 minute video at this link with Yellow Vests motorcyles visible early in the video....LINK  The police saying some 1800 protested there today.

Another traffic circle (roundabout) protest in the southwest of France at Angouleme today...LINK

This video from Normandy at Mondeville near Caen police making an arrest with someone down on the ground......LINK

Nearly one thousand Yellow Vests reported by the police in Nantes today with clashes as the protest moved towards its conclusion.  The police using tear gas.

This video from Montpellier showing a protest in the area of a traffic circle.    There are reports of five arrests today and vandalism at the home of a ruling party politician in Montpellier......LINK

In Toulouse hundred said to have been involved in the Yellow Vests protest with tear gas employed as seen in this RT video......LINK

The official government estimate is that some 28-thousand participated nationwide.

Meanwhile National Rally leader Marine Le Pen tweeted that the government's management of the protests "left the idiots useful" enabling the "black blocs" of anarchists.

She described Interior Minister Christophe Castaner as "incompetent and.....accomplice!" in her post.

Le Pen also noting that the government's failure to preempt the anarchists and enabling their rampages leads to a point where:

"The claims of #GiletsJaunes (Yellow Vests) are thus soiled"

And in conclusion an estimate published by the "Yellow Number" Facebook tonight says some 44-thousand protested across France today.   The Yellow Vests first anniversary includes activity tomorrow and that will be covered in later news posts as information is available.