FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 96: YELLOW VESTS CALL TO ACTION WITH A RETURN TO MASS PROTEST
Yellow Vests activists like Jerome Rodrigues, wounded by a police flash bang round during a protest, proclaiming a call to action today on the streets of France.
Rodrigues describing today as a day for "complete civil disobedience" including refusal to submit to any identity checks by the police.
Multiple protests proclaimed in Paris today along with others in cities across the country. Limited response noted on social media networks according to BFM-TV but some 2300 did express support for a gathering in a prohibited zone for protest the Champs-Elysees in Paris.
Much being said in the days before the protest about the coronavirus situation in the country and how it has devastated France's economy leaving a cost to be borne by the people particularly the young to cover the massive debt load of government spending.
The police in Paris led by Prefect Didier Lallement banning protest at many key locations in the center of the city.
The French Interior Minister, Gerald Darmanin, announcing that a new crowd dispersal grenade will be employed by police beginning today. The new grenade said to be less likely to cause injury to protesters of which thousands have suffered injuries during the Yellow Vests protest.
Lurking in the background of all this the reported increase of coronavirus cases in the country and government moves to step up restrictive measures with the virus being cited in some police decisions to ban protests at certain locations today.
Outside of Paris in the south of France a gathering in Yellow Vests in a traditional location. This group gathered at a traffic circle in Perpignan near the border with Spain.
From Paris this live video stream of a protest......
The police in Paris making arrests this morning and already telling the media about it. They report 81 arrests as of 1130 am local time (530 am Eastern US)........
The number of arrests going up and police using tear gas in Paris at the Avenue de Wagram. Police acting to stop protesters from reaching the Champs Elysees......VIDEO......VIDEO
BY LATE TODAY THE POLICE REPORTING SOME 300 ARRESTS WITH 165 REMAINING IN CUSTODY IN PARIS......
Two protests reported in Paris today.
"The Republican order must prevail"
The words of Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin today.
In other parts of France Yellow Vests gathering in Montpellier today at a traffic circle with authorities prohibiting protest in the center of the city. The police confronting the Yellow Vests there.....YELLOW VESTS MONTPELLIER FRANCE 9/12/2020
In Dijon the Yellow Vests again out for a Sautrday protest.......FRANCE 3 VIDEO REPORT IN FRENCH
Yellow Vests appearing again at the waterfront in Marseille with one wearing a muzzle reading "Dictature" ("Dictator"). The mainstrream media estimate of the crowd in the hundreds........LA PROVENCE VIDEO REPORT
At the square in Douai, France today another gathering of Yellow Vests.....FRANCE 3 VIDEO REPORT IN FRENCH
Ancerville, France near Metz and Nancy in eastern France the site of a Yellow Vests gathering today....PUISSANCE TELEVISION VIDEO REPORT IN FRENCH
The official government estimate of protesters in the country today is 6 thousand with 2,500 in Paris.
"The Yellow Number" Facebook is again active and will have its own count in the coming days.
To sum up the Yellow Vests are back but the government-mainstream media is playing the numbers down for now and the numbers are low for many reasons above all the fear generated over the spread of COVID-19.
The ability of the movement to generate increased support on the streets permanently impaired by the the coronavirus situation as presented by the government, the experts, the media etc. etc.
The big people see COVID-19 as something the world will deal with their way for the next 15 months or so. That is the hard bottom line humanity faces right now.
That's the story of the Yellow Vests for Week 96.
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