This is a French youtube video from the beginning of the "Yellow Vest Movement" (Published on Nov 17, 2018). This protest movement started out fairly peaceful organized by the working middle class living and working in rural-areas, as a protest against their elected leader Macron and the crazy taxation on fuel that just didn't work out for them, they just can't pay any more taxes, France is one of the most heavily taxed countries in Europe...
There is a pretty funny clip in the video where what looks like it could be a farmer with a big tractor pulling a tank of "liquid organic-fertiliser" spraying it over what looks like a very important city building, quite amusing to watch at 1:04 in the youtube clip...
But what's happening now in Paris and the rest of the country looks less amusing, there could actually be a real revolution happening in France, both the far-left and the far-right have for some strange reason joined forces with the "yellow vests" and the protest is turning into a full on riot, and there has been several deaths and the rioting in the streets don't seem to calm down it looks like there will be a new manifestation on Saturday 8th of December...
An 80-year old woman was killed by a teargas grenade fired off by riot cops, four civilians have been killed and both civilians and police officers have been wounded, there are also reports about police officers who actually support the "yellow vests", and don't want to follow orders and attack the people that could pretty much be their own parents.
Here is a more recent video from the riots in Paris and it doesn't look fun at all, (if you're not into "riot porn"), the video is in french, but even if you don't speak french you might recognize the word "guillotine"...
The French people are not happy with mr.Macron, and well things don't look very nice at all...
Both the police (65,000 officers) and the military are now mobilizing to potentially attack their own people...
And there is a new strategy -- this time police officers have been instructed not just to be mobile but also to directly engage with protesters, meaning that the situation could be even more violent than the riots seen last weekend.
Source thelocal.fr
Lets hope this conflict can stop and that the social injustices can be corrected, with out using either the "guillotine" or massacre a whole bunch of civilians/protestors...
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_movement
https://www.thelocal.fr/20181206/thousands-of-police-to-swamp-paris-streets-to-keep-order-on-saturday
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Im writing about this because there has been a media-blackout in many countries, I usually don't like to write about these things but I think people deserve to know what is happening in France right now. /
