“There are just too many taxes in France,” said Veronique Lestrade, a demonstrator on the outskirts of Paris, who said her family was struggling to make ends meet.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Europe getting restless...
Posted on 11/17/2018 8:45:45 AM PST by mandaladon
PARIS (Reuters) - Thousands gathered on motorways across France on Saturday to protest against higher fuel taxes and President Emmanuel Macron’s economic policies, in a campaign of road blockades in which one protester was accidentally killed and dozens were injured.
Dubbed the “yellow vests”, protesters took to motorway sliproads and tunnel entrances, causing major back-ups at some highway tolls and blocking access to airports, including in Toulouse.
The demonstrations, coordinated on social media, and born out of a backlash against rising fuel prices, are the latest confrontation between Macron and dissatisfied voters who view the former investment banker as out of touch with ordinary people.
At a blockade in the southeastern department of Savoie, a driver panicked when protesters surrounded her car and she accelerated, hitting and killing a female demonstrator, French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said in televised comments.
The traffic back-ups and stoppages caused several other accidents and run-ins with frustrated drivers trying to get around them, and police said 17 people were in custody.
At least 47 people were injured across the country, including three seriously, according to the interior ministry, which by midday estimated that close to 125,000 demonstrators were taking part in Saturday’s protests.
Police said they had used tear gas to clear the entrance to a tunnel under the Mont-Blanc mountain in the Alps.
Demonstrators were also on the march in cities, including around the port of Marseille and down the Champs Elysees in Paris. Some sported slogans such as “give us back our purchasing power” on the back of high visibility vests, which the protesters have adopted to symbolize their revolt.
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“There are just too many taxes in France,” said Veronique Lestrade, a demonstrator on the outskirts of Paris, who said her family was struggling to make ends meet.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Europe getting restless...
Karma for attacking our President.
But they still vote in the left over and over and over and over
They are not that $@#@ing restless.
He also praised a French Nazi collaborator, Marshall Philippe Petain before he turned on America/President Trump.
Time to rollout Madame Guillotine!
With Oil and Gas prices falling all over the World this French Clown has caused the price of fuel to rise in France in order to push his Green agenda. It wont be long before he is shown the door. What an idiot.
Froggies deserve all they’ll get (and lose) with their proggie greenie mangina Macaroon.
How else do they expect to pay for all those unemployable “immigrants”?
The frogs love their socialism, so they should love their socialist taxes.
Darn nationalists.
Monsieur Macron, who thinks he’s Napoleon, is heading for his Waterloo.
France is in the throes of autoerotic strangulation.
LOL!
Supporting millions of unemployed Muslim scum ain’t cheap.
This is why POTUS could not travel by car for 2 hours to and from the World War I memorial. Too easy to block his route by protesters, and France is notorious for blocking roads when they protest.
It is interesting to note they are protesting taxes. File this for the next time some Democrat says we should be more like Europe.
Sacre bleu! These idiots live in a socialist craphole where 2 out of 3 people are on the dole and the only way to pay for that is to tax everyone who breathes. They want more goodies but don’t want to pay for it.
The SOB raised taxes, it has nothing to do with Trump or “Karma”. It was gonna happen regardless.
>>Demonstrators were also on the march in cities, including around the port of Marseille and down the Champs Elysees in Paris. Some sported slogans such as “give us back our purchasing power” on the back of high visibility vests, which the protesters have adopted to symbolize their revolt.<<
This is a demonstration of civil disobedience that is long overdue to be carried out in D.C. and in hundreds of other cities by Americans who are sick of watching the ‘rats, leftists, so-called “progressives”, antifa thugs, and other Marxists violate our country’s laws and commit violence in our streets.
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