(MAINSTREAM MEDIA SOURCES USED IN THIS POST FRANCE 24, BFM-TV ETC.)
French President Emmanuel Macron went full bore into the Ukraine situation in the last week holding phone conversations with Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden.
Macron also joining the Russian sanctions chorus at the end of the week looking presidential as the 2022 Presidential Election approaches (First Round April 10, Second Round April 24).
(SPECIAL REPORT: A cargo ship belonging to an ethnic Russian leader in the Baltic states seized in the English Channel and directed to a French port. The Russian Embassy in Paris asking for an explanation.
French President Emmanuel Macron convening a defense council meeting on Saturday afternoon.)
And the Yellow Vests continue their protests in Paris and across France today here is video from Paris as the Yellow Vests gathered on Saturday afternoon....
VIDEO STREAM YELLOW VESTS WEEK 172 PARIS 2/26/2022
More video from Paris today of the protest as it was getting assembled...
These Yellow Vests protests started on the basis of higher "Green" taxes for fuel in France the economic concerns continue in our COVID inflation age but also opposition to COVID restrictions like the vaccine passport and coercion to vaccinate have been a big part of the Saturday protests for some months now.
To the French Riviera and protest in Toulon. Some in Yellow Vests, some not, walk through the streets and the port. Adults and children both participating in the protest...
And in Paris you can see the thousands in the streets for today's protest...
Protest continued in Rouen today with speakers at a rally and a march through the streets a protest with a focus on the vaccine passport and the singing of the Yellow Vests song...
Opposition to the vaccine passport in Nantes today a rally with a speaker anD at the end of this eight munute plus video a crowd in the hundreds raising their voices and clapping their hands...
"CARNIVAL FOR LIBERTY" IN PAU
It is the Carnival-Mardi Gras season and that spirit embodied in today's protest in Pau in southwestern France...
The protest in Agen in southwestern France today this video 35 minutes long.
The first nine minutes the march of protesters, then the rally and speakers. One white banner reads when translated from French:
SAVE OUR CHILDREN
STOP INJECTIONS
AND MASKS
STOP THE ABUSE...
And the Yellow Vests protesting in Lille in northern France today the protest described in the video as supporting "peace" and "liberty"...
In Paris today the obvious protest over Ukraine was also held but there were many more protesting in Paris and across France for freedom from vaccine passports and mandates and for better economic conditions today.
That's the story of France and the Yellow Vests for this week.
No comments:
Post a Comment