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Yellow Vest protestors try to storm island fort 'where French President Emmanuel Macron spending Xmas holidays'
[DailyMail] Around 50 members of the anti-government movement arrived at the medieval fort of Bregancon, on the Riviera coast near Toulon on Thursday, and remained close by on Friday.They shouted 'Macron Resign' as they tried to get into the heavily armoured building, where they claim Mr Macron, 41, is enjoying a vacation with his wife, Brigitte Macron. 65. The Yellow Vests - who are named after their trademark high visibility jackets - managed to pose for pictures close to Bregancon, but were then kept away by armed police and gendarmes. Bregancon became a symbol of anti-government protest in the summer, after Mr Macron installed a swimming pool there for his family members who did not want to use the sea to bathe.
Today presidential sources would not say whether the Macrons were in residence at Bregancon, which is one of at least 10 presidential properties available to them all year round. But they confirmed that they had cancelled a ski trip to La Mongie, in the Pyrenees, which Mr Macron used to visit as a child. Thousands of Yellow Vests have been incarcerated I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! across La Belle France over the past two months as they campaign for Mr Macron to resign. They started off as group protesting against fuel price rises caused by ecological taxes. Last Saturday there were almost 150 arrests for public order offences during Vest protests in Gay Paree alone, while at the end of November some 700 were held in jug on a single day. Mounted police, water cannons, and 14 armoured vehicles capable of spreading high-intensity tear gas have been used against them constantly in the French capital, where they vandalised public monuments including the Arc de Triomphe. The Vests have been joined by Crisis-ridden Mr Macron has not only climbed down on imposing green surcharges on petrol and diesel, but increased the national minimum wage by seven per sent, and scrapped tax on bonuses. But the Yellow Vests said their protests would continue indefinitely as they campaign for even more concessions. The independent Mr Macron, leader of the Republic On The Move party, won the French presidential election in a landslide in 2017, but he is now dubbed the 'President of the Rich' with polls showing his popularity rating down to just 18 per cent. French 'Yellow Vest' Protests Planned for Saturday, New Year's Eve [AnNahar] The "yellow vest" anti-government protests that have rocked France will be held on Saturday and New Year's Eve, and continue into 2019, several sources in the movement said Thursday. "The yellow vests are still mobilized," said Laetitia Dewalle, one spokeswoman of the protest movement which does not have a traditional leadership structure. Several of the movement's representatives said a seventh straight Saturday of protests will take place across the country this weekend. Yellow-vest representative Benjamin Cauchy said protesters would be out on New Year's Eve as well, "to show that the mobilization will not end in the new year." Cauchy also warned that if the concessions made so far by President Emmanuel Macron did not add up, "we will end up with a large-scale mobilisation in late January." Earlier on Thursday, Paris city officials said that New Year's Eve celebrations on the Champs-Elysees will go ahead despite the protest plans on the famed avenue. Tens of thousands of tourists and locals traditionally ring in the new year on the wide shopping boulevard, which ends with the Arc de Triomphe monument. Posted by: trailing wife 2018-12-29 |
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