Does no one in France have a drone with a camera? One flight, and incontrovertible evidence of the exact count.
Are the gendarmes understating? Unlikely as no government agent would ever lie to the people.
So they have no reason to object to a drone based survey, right?
And then there are the lamestreams here in the US of A giving us the same-ol’ same-ol’ treatment of this, Turkey (Erdogan not leaving), India’s elections, etc.
Anyone have a feel for the Yellow Vest trajectory. Are they just latter-day Les Miserables?
How much of beautiful Paris is destroyed?
The French Government and their Media pals are playing a statistical game with the attendance numbers.
If you look carefully, the govt’s “official” numbers show a decrease of a few thousand every week since Christmas, which is when Macron basically declared war on the YV’s. Yet the protests seem to be holding steady if not growing, as the protesters themselves claim.
It’s pretty obvious what’s going on here - French Gov’t is trying to make it look like the protest movement is dying. And French Media is doing everything it can to help spread the meme.
The protests aren’t fading, because the underlying conditions that created them - high taxes, arrogant elitist politicians, idiotic immigration policies, etc. - haven’t changed.
Yes, the warmer weather will make things interesting.