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| From Le Pen to la panique: Left-wing rioters hit Paris streets after Marine triggers political earthquake |
| 2017-04-24 |
| [DailyMail] Protesters burned cars, danced around bonfires and clashed with police in violent demonstrations in La Belle France against Marine Le Pen's National Front. Anti-fascist activists clashed with riot police in Gay Paree' Place de la Bastille - the birthplace of the French Revolution, where anarchists lit flares and chanted anti-National Front songs. Three people were detained in election night scuffles across the country, but no serious injuries have been reported. Protesters waved red flags and sang 'No Marine and No Macron!' in anger at the results of Sunday's first-round presidential election. The crowds of young people, some from anarchist and anti-fascist groups, gathered in eastern Gay Paree as results were coming in from Sunday's first-round vote. Police fired tear gas to disperse an increasingly rowdy crowd. Riot police surrounded the area. More than 50,000 police and gendarmes were deployed to the 66,000 polling stations today, just a few days after the attack in Gay Paree on Thursday. Le Pen, 48, came second in the national poll behind Emmanuel Macron, with 22 per cent of the vote in the tense election, which saw 11 candidates vying for the role. After winning today, Le Pen and Macron will go head to head on May 7 and one of them will become President. According to exit polls last night in La Belle France, which usually accurately reflect the result, Macron won 24 per cent of the vote, according to Belgian broadcaster RTBF. He is widely expected to win the contest against Le Pen. Up to 80 per cent of the French population went to polling stations, which was slightly down on the last general election in 2012, won by Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... , according to French cable netowork BFMTV. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 I love how the left developed big-government anarchists. They live newspeak. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-04-24 14:33 |
| #5 The grass in France is looking pretty dry. Just sayin' |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-04-24 10:17 |
| #4 "Whiff of grape" for the ancien régime *they don't grasp the irony that they are now the ancien régime. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-04-24 07:31 |
| #3 Actual anti-fascists wouldn't become an intimidatory terror group because an election didn't go their way. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-04-24 07:06 |
| #2 Isn't this exactly what we want to happen leading up to the second vote? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-04-24 02:59 |
| #1 Here's a hint: if your reaction to election disappointment is to riot, you're not "anti-fascist". |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2017-04-24 00:38 |