Posted on 12/08/2018 4:41:43 PM PST by BenLurkin
Police used tear gas, a water cannon and horses to charge protesters on roads fanning out from the Champs Elysees boulevard, but encountered less violence than a week ago, when the capital witnessed its worst unrest since the 1968 student riots.
As night fell and many demonstrators started returning home, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said there had been about 10,000 protesters in Paris by early evening and some 125,000 across the country.
"The situation is now under control," Mr Castaner said at a joint news conference with Prime Minister Edouard Philippe.
He said about 120 demonstrators and nearly 20 police officers had been injured nationwide.
Nearly 1,000 people had been arrested, 620 of them in Paris, after police found potential weapons such as hammers and baseball bats on them.
Mr Philippe said police would remain vigilant through the night as some protesters continued to roam the city.
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Rumors of police solidarity are quite exaggerated apparently
Isn't that what Alexander Haig said?
This is the time you need to dig deep and get angry.
That’s a hard crackdown in Western terms. Of course the globalists really hate native Westerners quite a bit.
I wonder how common baseball bats are in Europe?
They may not be as common as here,but there are plenty around.
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Imagine if the French middle class had AR-15s.
The elite Euro-thugs have not replaced the native population fast enough I guess.
Who could have imagined such madness 50 years ago where Western governments have decided to actually replace their own people.
It won’t be hammers and baseball bats when we Americans have finally had enough.
I watched a few hours live today.
I did not see 1 muslim, middle-easterner, or black among the yellow vests.
You know why, doncha?
Close enough...
Hard crackdowns. Yeah, those always work. /s
Especially for government work. 8>)
Things can “get lost in the translation”.
Why do I have the feeling that had this been illegal immigrants protesting in Paris that nobody would’ve been arrested and any vandalism would’ve gone unreported.
The benefits of socialism.
“Imagine if the French middle class had AR-15s.”
Some of them do.
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