Posted on 11/25/2018 10:06:33 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
PARIS (AFP) Faced with violent anti-government protests in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday will announce new measures in an attempt to rally support for environment-friendly tax increases.
Paris was counting the cost of clashes between police and demonstrators Sunday on the Champs-Elysees where barricades were set on fire, luxury shop windows smashed, and traffic lights uprooted. Some 30 people were injured and 101 arrested, police said.
The government blamed much of the violence on a small minority of ultra-right activists who infiltrated some 8,000 demonstrators wearing the yellow, high-visibility vests that symbolise their week-long protests against hikes in fuel tax.
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small minority of ultra-right .
super duper double secret top shelf anti establishment foreigner hating kitten killing women assaulting “ultra right” folks!!!!!
run for your lives!!!!!!!!!
The “ultra right” is here!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ve never seen the @#$#@$ing words “ultra left” come out of any leader’s or newspaper’s mouth.
Sure, blame the “ultra right”.
Here, across the pond, it is referred to as “alt right”.
Liberals never engage in or incite violence/s
Sometimes even the sheeple have their limits. I wonder when they will reach their limit when it comes to the moslem invaders.
“Aux Barricades”
Paris 1968 Redux
Guess it was a small number of ultra rightists then too.
Eh, Manny?
Good luck with it. The only thing that will dissipate the protests is an announcement the tax hikes are rescinded.
Which would be a humiliating climb down for the French government.
If Monsieur Macron hadn’t made such a complete mess out of his presidency, a mere small number of agitators — rightwing, leftwing, or whatever — couldn’t have brought down the entire City of Paris to protest against his policies.
So the French are rioting because their taxes are too high? But, it is for our children and to save the planet.
Wonder too how ingrained socialism is in the French culture? Do they realize the free stuff comes from the high taxes?
People in Europe have accepted higher taxes as devil bargain to pay for lavish welfare state benefits.
Unfortunately, governments have cut those benefits while increasing taxes. And there is little public appetite to pay new taxes for elite prestige vanity projects.
Macron faces tough selling for them and if doesnt help him his popularity rating is in low 30s.
So Europeans are not complete fools after all. Too bad, they didn’t realize this a long time ago.
I wonder if it is fair to say I told you so - re The Paris Climate agreement.
Après Macron, le déluge
Notice the press difference between Antifa protests in Portland and Anti-tax protests in France.
Antifa=good, Anti-Tax=bad
How come they didnt fight this hard in the two world wars?
It was supposed to be American dollars saving the erf.
Good point.
I hope they weren’t Nationalists! /s
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