(NEWS, COMMENT AND ANALYSIS)
YELLOW VESTS PROTEST IN THE STREETS OF PARIS OCTOBER 7, 2023
This week in France talk about bed bugs and fear of bed bugs with police using sniffer dogs to inspect trains and subways for the pests.
The need to act driven by the Olympics in Paris set for July 26-August 11 of next year...THE INDEPENDENT UK...
By Friday the "bedbug" issue was the subject of a high-level meeting with the reported infestation of a school...BBC NEWS...Seven schools in various regions of France closed over bedbug concerns on Friday.
The "bedbug" issue seemed to be spreading quickly to other nations by the end of the week even as far as Canada.
But perhaps the bedbug issue was a way of distracting from the economic hardships in France related to inflation.
That became obvious this week with word that clothing sales in France declined sharply last month.
Year to year sales of clothing in September down 15.6 percent.
The sales decline suggests amid a higher cost of living the French have to prioritize their spending on more urgent items like food, fuel and shelter...BFM-TV FRANCE NEWS STORY (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
NO SANCTIONS AGAINST AZERBAIJAN AT THIS TIME. THE MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON ON THURSDAY.
THIS WEEK THE FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER IN ARMENIA WHICH SUFFERED A MAJOR SETBACK WITH AZERBAIJAN'S CONQUEST OF THE DISPUTED NAGORNO-KARABAKH REGION.
MAJOR BACKING FOR THE AZERIS FROM TRADITIONAL ALLY TURKEY (TURKIYE) AND ALSO ISRAEL WHICH USES AZERBAIJAN AS A BASE FOR COVERT OPERATIONS AGAINST NEIGHBORING IRAN.
A FRENCH PROMISE TO SELL WEAPONS TO ARMENIA FROM FOREIGN MINISTER CATHERINE COLONNA ANGERING THE TURKS WHO BALKED AT PARTICIPATION IN PEACE TALKS WITH ARMENIA. AZERBAIJAN ALSO BACKING AWAY FROM THE EU BROKERED TALKS IN SPAIN AT THE END OF THE WEEK.
The withdrawal of French troops from Niger underway this weekend. The country's new military government ordering the 1,500 soldiers based there to get out.
In Paris this afternoon the small political party "Les Patriotes" which broke away from the National Rally holding a protest...
VIDEO STREAM LES PATRIOTES PROTEST IN PARIS SATURDAY 10/7/2023
The weekly Yellow Vests protest on Saturday afternoon in Paris underway.
The first protest sign one sees in the video linked twice below is aimed at the Mainstream Media in large letters it reads "Fake News".
A large yellow flag part of today's protest as well. Various protest signs and posters with the "Yellow Vests Song" sung during the demonstration...
VIDEO STREAM PARIS YELLOW VESTS WEEK 256 10/7/2023
Some video of a Yellow Vests protest at a traffic circle in du Muy which is in southern France near the Mediterranean coast...VIDEO LINK
Meanwhile Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin ordering police across France to protect Jewish establishments in light of the Hamas assault on Israel today...(BFM TV)
For now that's the story of France and the Yellow Vests.
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