Riot police have deployed water cannon, tear gas, and stun grenades against protesters on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, France, as the “Yellow Jackets” stage their third major rally against President Emmanuel Macron’s “green” tax hikes on fuel.
The clashes on the famous avenue leading the Napoleon Bonaparte’s iconic Arc de Triomphe come as Macron himself is in Argentina for the G20, threatening to disrupt a planned trade deal between the European Union and South America’s Mercosur over a disagreement with Brazil’s new president Jair Bolsonaro — dubbed the “Trump of the Tropics” — over a disagreement on climate change.
The globalist poster boy’s green policies are running into substantial opposition at home, however, with the “Yellow Jackets” movement which has united the anti-establishment left with the populist right in a loose coalition in defence of the French working class bringing the presidency of the man who once boasted he would govern “like Jupiter” to the brink.
Over 80 people have already been arrested over Saturday morning, according to Sky News, with the authorities complaining of around 1,500 “agitators” among the protesters.
“There’s a lot of incitement on social media and we are expecting excess and violence,” remarked David Michaux, of the UNSA Police union.
VIDEO: On a third day of unrest, clashes between “yellow vest” protesters and riot police break out on the Champs-Élysées in Paris pic.twitter.com/WJUjgTPrW7
— AFP news agency (@AFP) December 1, 2018
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