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Protesters attempted to storm City Hall as Yellow Vest protests entered 9th week in France
Voice of Europe ^ | 1/13/19

Posted on 01/13/2019 2:29:38 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

More than 84,000 people took part in the protests in Paris, Marseille, Bordeaux, Lyon, Strasbourg, and other French cities on Saturday.

Clashes eventually erupted at the iconic Champs Ulysses and Arc de Triomphe, with police using tear gas and water cannons to calm the angry crowds, RT reports. In Paris alone, 156 people were arrested during the standoff, with most of them put in custody, the law enforcers said.

In Nimes, protesters attempted to storm City Hall and police deployed tear gas against them. Clashes were also reported in Bourges in central France, where the local authorities said that 5,000 were rallying.

Around 1,000 demonstrators also made their way to the hippodrome and caused a delay of races in the horseracing town of Chantilly, north of Paris.

The French government earlier vowed zero tolerance for violence at the protests, with 80,000 security personnel deployed across France on the weekend.

(Excerpt) Read more at voiceofeurope.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: belongsinbloggers; bordeaux; bourges; chantilly; emmanuelmacron; europeanunion; france; globalwarminghoax; lyon; macron; marseille; nimes; paris; strasbourg; yellowvest; yellowvests

1 posted on 01/13/2019 2:29:38 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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Champs Ulysses is my favorite place.


2 posted on 01/13/2019 2:36:10 PM PST by Rio
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

Go Yellow Vests, bust them Elitist heads and oil up the Guillotine.


3 posted on 01/13/2019 2:38:49 PM PST by Navy Patriot (America NEEDS Mob Rule, another European and Mid East World War and a universal Draft)
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To: Rio

Indeed. Some pretty pathetic editing.


4 posted on 01/13/2019 2:39:59 PM PST by PGR88
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

Allons! A bas les aristos!


5 posted on 01/13/2019 2:44:41 PM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
Sounds like half the country is gonna be police state slave drones, the other half police state slaves.

Mission accomplished.

6 posted on 01/13/2019 2:52:20 PM PST by rawcatslyentist ("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
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To: Rio

Its Champs-Élysées


7 posted on 01/13/2019 3:02:41 PM PST by vette6387
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To: Navy Patriot

Reports are they’ve destroyed 60-70% of red light cameras in the country.


8 posted on 01/13/2019 4:07:36 PM PST by tbw2
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

This is what happens when the government’s response to people’s grievances is “shut up, bigots”.

When you won’t let people speak to each other in public or those in power about their problems, when you won’t let them hash it out peacefully in public, all they have left is violence.

Lesson learned - let people speak - to each other and those in power.


9 posted on 01/13/2019 4:09:14 PM PST by tbw2
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A government can only rule with the consent of the people. If they will not obey—only fear and terrors will enforce rule. The Republic will be seen as what it is—a sham. Liberty will come them from the mob. It will be the end of the 5th Republic and the EU—Beware, Germany may well invade to prop up Macron as elections are cancelled.


10 posted on 01/13/2019 4:35:22 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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Note that in France water cannon and tear gas is used to “calm” the protesters...


11 posted on 01/13/2019 6:15:41 PM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed it wright.)
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Looks like the French are beyond red light cameras, seems they now have SPEED cameras which will bust you for going ONE kilometer per hour over the limit... Bust away, 🐝!!! ;)
12 posted on 01/13/2019 6:25:39 PM PST by Frank_2001
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