France: Thousands of Yellow Vests Take to the Streets Again!

Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
December 22, 2018

The weather is no doubt taking a toll.

But the Yellow Vests fight on.

RT:

The atmosphere at the Yellow Vest protests in the heart of the French capital has become more strained as demonstrators engage in scuffles with police officers.

Tensions rose hours into the rallies and police resorted to force against the rioters near the artistic Montmartre district in the north of the capital.

Scuffles also broke out near Madeleine Church, some 2km from Montmartre. Protesters were also seen near the iconic Louvre Museum and Sacre-Coeur Basilica. More than 100 people have been detained, according to the Paris Police Prefecture.

Some 2,000 people in fluorescent vests – clothing usually worn by drivers that has now become an emblem of the rallies – were marching in the capital Saturday, according to the city’s police prefecture. The number of participants in the streets has notably diminished, however.

Yellow Vest protesters changed their usual meeting place. Instead of the Champs-Elysees, where violent clashes have occurred, they rallied in Montmartre. Yet, the district wasn’t the intended venue for the rallies. Initially, they were called to march towards a French symbol of power and a major tourist site – the iconic Versailles Palace. Located some 20km west of Paris, the palace was once besieged during the French Revolution.

Even if these protests are smaller, as long as they keep going, Macron is crippled. He can’t do anything at all, lest everyone once again join them in the streets.

And I’m not convinced this week and last week were smaller – they could just be making that up.

He didn’t resign, but this is now a slow and torturous demise. After backing off of his weather tax after swearing he would never do anything that the people wanted him to do, he is nonviable as a figurehead of a political movement. And as long as these lads are grinding away at him each week, he and everything he represents is getting weaker.