Saturday, February 1, 2020

FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 64:  PENSION PROTESTS, TEAR GAS GRENADE WITHDRAWN




As the strike against pension reform moves on the French national railways acted this week to award bonuses to those workers who chose not to strike during the last two months.

The bonuses 300 to 1500 euros or 333 to 1665 US dollars.


France's  Interior Christophe Castaner announced last Sunday that the GLI-F4 tear gas grenades would no longer be used by French police.


The high explosive content of the grenades (25 grams) causing injuries to protesters including blowing off the hands of those who picked them up.....HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH STORY


And then there was the pose of President Emmanuel Macron with a t-shirt with the caption "LBD 2020" a reference to the flash bang rounds fired at protesters by riot police and picturing a cat with an injured eye.   Eye injuries in the hundreds caused by the police rounds;....VIDEO LINK




WEEK 64 YELLOW VESTS LIVE VIDEO LINK-PARIS VIDEO LINK




MULTIPLEX LIVE VIDEO WEEK 64 YELLOW VESTS 2/1/2020



MULTIPLEX LIVE VIDEO WEEK 64 YELLOW VESTS PART 2



MULTIPLEX LIVE VIDEO WEEK 64 YELLOW VESTS PART 3




The live video from Montpellier in the south of France showing confrontation between police and Yellow Vests today on the Multiplex link above.

All three parts of the live multiplex stream linked in this post above.


Yellow Vests on the streets in Toulouse today.....



YELLOW VESTS TOULOUSE WEEK 64 2/1/2020


The video of the scene earlier today in Montpellier.....


YELLOW VESTS MONTPELLIER WEEK 64 BEGINNING OF PROTEST 2/1/2020


And by evening in Montpellier today the fires in the street as the black blocs of anarchists made their presence known.


YELLOW VESTS MONTPELLIER WEEK 64 2/1/2020 EVENING VIDEO


Yellow Vests in the port area of Marseille today.....


YELLOW VESTS MARSEILLE WEEK 64 2/1/2020


This video from Nantes today shows the convoy of police vehicles moving around the Yellow Vests protest and then you see the group of Yellow Vests marching in the street.....


YELLOW VESTS NANTES WEEK 64 2/1/2020


A short video clip of the scene in Paris today with comments from Yellow Vests activist Jerome Rodrigues.....PARIS YELLOW VESTS WEEK 64 2/1/2020


The Yellow Vests again taking to the streets in northern France in Lille today....


YELLOW VESTS LILLE WEEK 64 2/1/2020



No estimate of the numbers on the streets and highways and byways of France yet for Week 64 the "Yellow Number" page on Facebook but last week's numbers 16,531 at 74 locations.     The pattern seems to be close to the same this week as far a numbers visible in the videos.   It is winter right now in France.


That's the story of the Yellow Vests in France this week.


(NOTE:  YELLOW NUMBER FACEBOOK ESTIMATED 23,465 PROTESTERS FOR WEEK 64 IN FRANCE)




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