Posted on 12/01/2018 5:50:12 PM PST by Nextrush
Protesters have scaled the Arc de Triomphe in central Paris, as clashed with riot police continued during a third weekend of "yellow vest" rallies.
Police fired tear gas, stun grenades and water cannon on the Champs-Elysees, while masked protesters hurled projectiles and set buildings on fire.
At least 110 people were injured, including 17 members of the security forces, and 270 arrests were made.
Protests over fuel tax have grown into general anger at higher living costs.
President Emmanuel Macron says his fuel policies are needed to combat global warming.
One person was in a critical condition after protesters pulled down an iron gate at the Tuileries garden near the Louvre museum, which fell on several people.
An assault rifle was stolen from a police vehicle although it was unclear if it was loaded, AFP news agency quotes a police source as saying......
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Macron is taking the high ground and playing the victim card but it looks like a messy situation he caused with his policies.
President Emmanuel Macron says his fuel policies are needed to combat global warming.
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Glad he said this...now people far and wide will know just how far Leftists are willing to go for their religion of Climate Catastrophism.
They’ll have rampant poverty and crime and a once great country in ruins, but at least their cars will be pumping clean fuel!!
And in the end, ladies and gentlemen, that’s all that matters :)
It’s a result of socialism.
Thank God they are not doing this to their Muslim immigrants.
Macron has a 25% approval rating.
Chemical Warfare?
So fascist.
And just how, Monsieur Macron, will your abusive tax, in your small country, overwhelm the purported environmental impact of China? With China's massive use of coal for electrical generation, whatever France does on it's national level will be a drop in the proverbial bucket of global weather.
Macron, like all good socialists, wants to rob the bourgeoisie to the point of subsistence living, while he and the elites will live like royalty.
People buy into this fraud like sheep following a Judas goat. Disgusting.
What? No eggs?
France in twenty years will be pure hell.
Elections have consequences.
I don’t understand these French people protesting like this. They seem to think the country belongs to the people and that they should have a say in fuel policies. Don’t these idiots know the policies are to help save the world?
(Just exercising the left side of my brain)
a Sunspot denier....
The results never matter, its their ‘ good intentions ‘ that matter.
Results be damned.
More power to them!
Total BS. From a sunspot denier...
Macron has no children thus no interest for the future. How heavily is he invested in Green industries? He has a personal edge in all of this.
The French elected their government and Macron. They must want hire fuel prices.
Vive La France!
It’s like they’re #$#$ing six years old.
That picture that used to be up around here, of flames and ashes and obama in the middle saying “my work is done here”
it applies to Macron, Merkel and even May to an extent.
It applies to northern European countries where raping white women is a hobby.
There are at LEAST 50 million of us in this country that DO NOT LIKE ANY OF IT!!
That’s a nasty little army with a lot of #$#$ing guns.
We’ll win in the end.
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