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More than a hundred thousand French protesters took to the streets to protest mandatory vaccinations which roll out next month.
Hopefully, this new unrest will have the same effect and governments across the world who are mulling over the idea of forced vaccinations think twice before making such a tyrannical decision.
Paris is aflame.
For several days in a row, people have been lighting fires across the city, marching through the streets chanting against Emmanuel Macron's regime, in spite of heavy state repression.
Riot police in France have made a sinister reputation for themselves since the 2016 protests (against a Labour-destroying bill promulgated by then-minister of Economy... Macron) by making extensive use of concentrated teargas, rubber bullet guns, as well as illegal kettling and immobilising techniques, leading to thousands of wounded, including several dozens of mutilations (nearly 30 persons lost an eye, nearly 20 lost a hand, many lost partial usage of a limb).
Over the last few days, since Macron forced a particularly unpopular bill to be adopted by preventing the Parliament to vote on it—and to reject it, as was highly likely to happen—even though it is sure to impact the frail and the poor more than anything else, the police have been unleashed.
They are beating and arresting random citizens along the marches, chasing protesters down the streets, beating journalists and destroying their material, dragging women by the hair threatening rape, rounding up passers-by, lining up peaceful protesters on walls to intimidate them, and forcing picket lines to try to break strikes all across the country.
Last night in Paris things went up a notch as some police randomly entered fast food joints just to beat up people inside—something which had been seen during the 2018—20 Yellow-Vest protests, but never reported on in the media.
None of this can be seen in French mass media, at the moment. The reason for it may well be that 90% of French press is privately owned by a dozen oligarchs, several of whom supported Macron's presidential campaigns.
No one knows what will happen with this social movement but the French people are fighting back, at least. Tomorrow marks another day of inter-union general strike and nationwide marching, but workers and the youth are doing a lot to reenact the May-68 events in the meantime to tire out the forces and buy the strikers precious time. France has been hit hard by lockdown restrictions, the Ukrainian war and the ensuing economic crises, not to mention the government's appalling management of all of it.
Macron chose to hit the people with his worst reform at their lowest in the hope that they wouldn't have much energy left to fight back; they're doing they best to prove him wrong.
I first saw this on Facebook at the end of 2018 and was overly pessimistic about a repeat of the Yellow Vests happening here.
Over four years later, everything still applies. The French continue shutting shit down, Americans have gone back to being mostly apathetic over 2 1/2 years after George Floyd's death, more states have implemented anti-protest laws, and various interest groups continue to sponsor policies that harm the working class.
Hi Guys,
I just received the Police Patches for our yellow Vests here for our production Prom Queen. I will start sewing them to some of the vest for our Police Extras.
Police in Paris have deployed barricades, heavy equipment, and armoured vehicles as a freedom convoy is set to descend on the city.
More than a hundred thousand French protesters took to the streets to protest mandatory vaccinations which roll out next month.
It's been 41 weeks and a lot of people still don’t know what’s happening in France.
The French state has now sent heavily armed riot cops to high schools to intimidate students (and teachers) from joining the anti-government protests that are happening all around the country.
Photo: Laura Pfister
Via Redfish
