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Almost 150 arrested after post-election trouble in Paris overnight
[AlAhram] A hundred and forty-one people were juggedDrop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! in Gay Paree after trouble flared overnight following Emmanuel Macron's victory in La Belle France's presidential election, police said on Monday. Those detained in Menilmontant, a north-eastern district of Gay Paree, were accused of offences ranging from throwing missiles at the police to damaging property. The demonstrators were protesting both against Macron - criticised by many on La Belle France's far left as a member of a discredited elite in thrall to global capitalism - and against his defeated far-right nationalist rival, Marine Le Pen.
However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... an abstention rate of over 25 percent, and the fact that more than 11 percent of those who turned out chose neither candidate, pointed to a high degree of disillusionment with the choices on offer in the runoff. The hardline leftist CGT labour union planned a demonstration in the capital later in the day against the kind of liberal economic policies that Macron espouses Posted by: trailing wife 2017-05-09 |
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