https://www.france24.com/en/20181206...ow-vest-revolt

French student protests intensify alongside 'yellow vest' revolt.

Around 200 French high schools were blocked or disrupted Thursday by students protesting a raft of education overhauls, on a fourth day of action called to coincide with anti-government demonstrations which have rocked the country in recent weeks.
Dozens of people wearing face masks threw Molotov cocktails, torched trash bins and clashed with police in several cities during violent protests ahead of a call for nationwide demonstrations on Friday.
"The situations are quite varied, with total or partial blockages, barricades to control access, burning pallets," an education ministry official told AFP.

Although the students are demanding an end to testing overhauls and stricter university entrance requirements[:rotfl2:] , they have seized on the momentum of the ongoing "yellow vest" protests against President Emmanuel Macron. "We're the ones who are going to eventually have to pay higher fuel prices," said Ines, one of around 150 high school students demonstrating in the southern Paris suburb of Cachan.

Looks like others are starting to jump on the bandwagon.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-f...-idUSKBN1O52BS

French president Moron to deploy 89,000 troops and armored vehicles to quell riots.

GO GREEN!

Looks like the government backed down. Too bad for the planet.

I have no problems letting my imagination running wild.

I was thinking on the civil war in Syria and how it started.

If I remember it correctly some part of the Syrian army changed side.

Of course this is not going to happen.

Back to real life politic discussion.

Markus

These aren't antifa punks, these are citizens singing "La Marseillaise" so you never know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEJHJ_WfNgU


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnPCm8KO_rg

https://apnews.com/3b7d4a322df34823b448dabd46e2e03a


As anti-government protests rage through France and Paris locks down, fearing new riots, the man whose presidency has unleashed the anger is nowhere to be seen. French President Emmanuel Macron has stayed out of the public eye all week, leaving his unpopular government to try to calm the nation. In response, “Macron, resign!” has become the main slogan of the “yellow vest” demonstrators.
The protesters’ anger has been directed at the French leader, who they feel has been the “president of the rich” and is out-of-touch with ordinary people.

I wonder if we can make paralels with the Maidan.

Donald Trump blames the Paris climate agreement for the violence in the French capital.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a8673771.html

No, we cannot.


Political situations in Ukraine back then (and today) and France are very different. Lets not start another relativisation round.


If the Maidan compare to anything, then the protests in Gezhi park, Turkey, in both cases against mafia-like, criminal oligarchic gangster clans running the state. That has another quality than the corruption and centralist elitism in France.

A banker only looks at the numbers and never sees the people.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J78SdCzzumA

I believe you, but you will not see this reasoning on CNN or the other news channels :o

Apparently Macron used those 89,000 to surround the presidential palace and protect him from the French citizenry. :03:


https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...208-story.html

That's not presidential decorum you're smelling. :har: :/\\chop

Apparently it's just fine for a left leaning government to use any number of weapons against their own citizenry, but a right leaning government launches a little tear gas against foreign invaders and the fake mainstream media goes berserk. :hmmm:


The French police are firing rubber bullets at taxpayers. Nothing to see here. :03: