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| 70 Arrested in Brussels during 'Yellow Vest' Protest | |
| 2018-12-09 | |
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! Saturday in the Belgian capital Brussels during copycat "yellow vest" demonstrations rocking neighbouring La Belle France, police said. The area housing European institutions including the offices of the European Commission and the European Parliament was sealed off as a precautionary measure. Police put up barricades there and both vehicles and pedestrians were denied access. The protesters gathered in two districts of the city -- Arts Lois and Porte de Namur -- but there were no incidents of violence. "There have been around 70 arrests following checks carried out as a preventive measure," Brussels police spokeswoman Ilse Van De Keere told AFP. According to Belga news agency, young protesters blocked a highway linking Brussels to the town of Rekkem in Flanders, located near the French border. They also put up a barricade near the Franco-Belgian border close to Adinkerque, Belga said. The "yellow vest" movement in La Belle France originally started as a protest about planned fuel hikes but has morphed into a mass protest against President Emmanuel Macron's policies and top-down style of governing. It has spilled over to some other countries, including Belgium and especially in the country's French-speaking region. On November 30, a "yellow vest" protest by some 300 people in Brussels degenerated into violence in which two police vehicles were torched. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 Belgians are not subject to the Macron government’s laws and regulations, so why the fuss? See - 1848. 'Those who cannot remember the past* are condemned to repeat it.' (George Santayana-1905) *Marxist have no real history. They're big on year 0. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-12-09 10:23 |
| #3 I think that anti-fa and BLM and the Democrats should form a new Abraham Lincoln Brigade and go defend the poor people of France and Europe. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2018-12-09 09:02 |
| #2 Belgians are not subject to the Macron government’s laws and regulations, so why the fuss? The rumbling noise you hear is a preference cascade starting up. Our media has been selling the riots as a protest against a French fuel tax increase. Whether they are doing this thru cluelessness or in service of someone's agenda is debatable. ( I know, embrace the power of AND) It will be entertaining to see how the talking heads explain this. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2018-12-09 06:22 |
| #1 Disagreement with wisdom from on high is not allowed. Oh, wait... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-12-09 01:53 |