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| Paris on lockdown for gilets jaunes protests - live updates | Paris on lockdown for gilets jaunes protests - live updates |
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| Paris police have reported that 30 people have been wounded in the gilets jaunes protests so far on Saturday, including three police officers. | |
| The statement did not say how severe the injuries were. | |
| Tensions remain high on the central Grands Boulevards and rue Réaumur, reports Le Parisien. | |
| In the capital’s third arrondissement, police have carried out a cavalry charge to disperse a small group of violent rioters, according to BFMTV. | |
| La tension monte d'un cran dans les rues de Paris, avec plusieurs enseignes dégradés au niveau des Grands Boulevards et de la rue Réaumur --> https://t.co/MPbpzCVWC0 pic.twitter.com/vgOgTjHD6b | |
| The French interior ministry denies a rumour that police officers are disguising themselves as protesters, and urges people to watch out for fake news. | The French interior ministry denies a rumour that police officers are disguising themselves as protesters, and urges people to watch out for fake news. |
| The gilets jaunes movement is being partly fuelled by conspiracy theories and fake news on social media, including widely spread claims that the president, Emmanuel Macron, has scrapped France’s constitution or is “selling France” to the United Nations, World Bank or other international organisations planning to let millions of migrants take over France. | |
| The reports have been viewed several million times. | The reports have been viewed several million times. |
| #8Décembre Non les forces de l'ordre ne se font pas passer pour des manifestants. Il peuvent intervenir en tenue civile ! Méfiez-vous de ce que vous lisez et des images qui circulent. Nos conseils pour décrypter les fausses informations ⬇️ #ChampsElysees https://t.co/t29QOE4uJl | #8Décembre Non les forces de l'ordre ne se font pas passer pour des manifestants. Il peuvent intervenir en tenue civile ! Méfiez-vous de ce que vous lisez et des images qui circulent. Nos conseils pour décrypter les fausses informations ⬇️ #ChampsElysees https://t.co/t29QOE4uJl |
| BFMTV reports an attempt to ransack the famous Drugstore brasserie on the Champs-Elysées, as protesters try to dismantle the protective wooden cladding put up last night: | BFMTV reports an attempt to ransack the famous Drugstore brasserie on the Champs-Elysées, as protesters try to dismantle the protective wooden cladding put up last night: |
| Gilets jaunes: tentative d'attaque du Drugstore de Publicishttps://t.co/o3iXiPE1rq pic.twitter.com/mvrx0iv4tK | Gilets jaunes: tentative d'attaque du Drugstore de Publicishttps://t.co/o3iXiPE1rq pic.twitter.com/mvrx0iv4tK |
| A reminder that while many tourist attractions (the Eiffel tower), museums (the Louvre) and major department stores were ordered to stay closed today, life in much of Paris away from the main boulevards is carrying on very much as normal: | A reminder that while many tourist attractions (the Eiffel tower), museums (the Louvre) and major department stores were ordered to stay closed today, life in much of Paris away from the main boulevards is carrying on very much as normal: |
| #Paris in flames: France on the brink as citizens, er, go shopping for cheese, wine, and pastries in the capital. #GiletsJaunes #YellowVests pic.twitter.com/5rZMZuhI2L | #Paris in flames: France on the brink as citizens, er, go shopping for cheese, wine, and pastries in the capital. #GiletsJaunes #YellowVests pic.twitter.com/5rZMZuhI2L |
| In the 17th arrondissement, Le Monde’s reporter saw a group of young men wearing yellow high-vis vests overturn scooters and set them on fire. Disgusted, more peaceful gilets jaunes protesters tried to stop them: | In the 17th arrondissement, Le Monde’s reporter saw a group of young men wearing yellow high-vis vests overturn scooters and set them on fire. Disgusted, more peaceful gilets jaunes protesters tried to stop them: |
| Des jeunes en #giletsjaunes mettent des scooters par terre, y mettent le feu, sous le regard de #giletsjaunes dépités qui ont essayé de les empêcher auparavant de brûler 1 voiture. « Je sais pas pourquoi ils ont un gilet eux, c’est pas des giletsjaunes » dit une femme de Vitry. pic.twitter.com/EQooDE1tyl | Des jeunes en #giletsjaunes mettent des scooters par terre, y mettent le feu, sous le regard de #giletsjaunes dépités qui ont essayé de les empêcher auparavant de brûler 1 voiture. « Je sais pas pourquoi ils ont un gilet eux, c’est pas des giletsjaunes » dit une femme de Vitry. pic.twitter.com/EQooDE1tyl |
| Angelique Chrisafis has been talking to gilets jaunes protesters who are on their way back from Paris, fleeing teargas: | Angelique Chrisafis has been talking to gilets jaunes protesters who are on their way back from Paris, fleeing teargas: |
| Céline, 43, who works in the catering service at a hospital outside Paris, fled from tear-gas on the Champs Elysées with her husband & daughter. ‘The crowd was peaceful, and then they fired at us,’ she said. 1/6 pic.twitter.com/Q24xV5DNlo | Céline, 43, who works in the catering service at a hospital outside Paris, fled from tear-gas on the Champs Elysées with her husband & daughter. ‘The crowd was peaceful, and then they fired at us,’ she said. 1/6 pic.twitter.com/Q24xV5DNlo |
| Celine added: | Celine added: |
| Céline said: ‘since November 17, I’ve been going to protest at a motorway toll every day at 2pm. I’m not going to stop now. The government needs to review the minimum wage and a build a fairer tax system’ 6/6 | Céline said: ‘since November 17, I’ve been going to protest at a motorway toll every day at 2pm. I’m not going to stop now. The government needs to review the minimum wage and a build a fairer tax system’ 6/6 |
| Some provincial gilets jaunes protesters have been prevented from boarding trains to Paris as part of the stringent security measures aimed at preventing a repeat of last week’s rioting. | Some provincial gilets jaunes protesters have been prevented from boarding trains to Paris as part of the stringent security measures aimed at preventing a repeat of last week’s rioting. |
| A national police spokesman said officers had been stationed at train stations around the country and ordered to check all passengers and turn away those carrying equipment that could be used to “cause damage to people or property”. | |
| “Yellow vest” protests are spreading beyond France. Belgian police have fired teargas and water cannon at stone-throwing protesters near the government offices and parliament, Associated Press reports. | |
| About 400 protesters smashed street signs, chanted slogans calling on the prime minister, Charles Michel, to resign, and threw paving stones, fireworks, flares and other objects at police. | |
| About 100 have been arrested, a police spokeswoman said. In the Netherlands, about 100 protesters gathered in a peaceful demonstration outside the Dutch parliament in The Hague and at least two protesters were detained in central Amsterdam. | About 100 have been arrested, a police spokeswoman said. In the Netherlands, about 100 protesters gathered in a peaceful demonstration outside the Dutch parliament in The Hague and at least two protesters were detained in central Amsterdam. |
| Donald Trump has had this to say on the latest gilets jaunes protest (which, remember, originally stemmed from resistance to an increase in diesel tax): | Donald Trump has had this to say on the latest gilets jaunes protest (which, remember, originally stemmed from resistance to an increase in diesel tax): |
| The Paris Agreement isn’t working out so well for Paris. Protests and riots all over France. People do not want to pay large sums of money, much to third world countries (that are questionably run), in order to maybe protect the environment. Chanting “We Want Trump!” Love France. | The Paris Agreement isn’t working out so well for Paris. Protests and riots all over France. People do not want to pay large sums of money, much to third world countries (that are questionably run), in order to maybe protect the environment. Chanting “We Want Trump!” Love France. |
| (I don’t think many people on the streets of Paris are chanting “We want Trump”). | (I don’t think many people on the streets of Paris are chanting “We want Trump”). |
| If the Champs-Elysées remains relatively calm, trouble is spreading to other areas of Paris. | If the Champs-Elysées remains relatively calm, trouble is spreading to other areas of Paris. |
| According to BFMTV, police and gendarmes on Boulevard Haussmann and the Grande Boulevards in the centre of Paris have used water cannon and teargas to disperse protesters who were trying to erect barricades using bus shelters and benches. | According to BFMTV, police and gendarmes on Boulevard Haussmann and the Grande Boulevards in the centre of Paris have used water cannon and teargas to disperse protesters who were trying to erect barricades using bus shelters and benches. |
| A barricade has been set on fire near République. | A barricade has been set on fire near République. |
| La situation se tend sur les grands boulevards#GiletsJaunes✏ https://t.co/1oo41jgXz7📺 https://t.co/VCLLBi3aQR pic.twitter.com/U9erFXSinK | La situation se tend sur les grands boulevards#GiletsJaunes✏ https://t.co/1oo41jgXz7📺 https://t.co/VCLLBi3aQR pic.twitter.com/U9erFXSinK |
| Boulevard Haussmann and the Grand Boulevards are near Paris’s best-known department stores, Galeries Lafayette and Printemps, both shut on what would normally have been one of their busiest days just before Christmas. | Boulevard Haussmann and the Grand Boulevards are near Paris’s best-known department stores, Galeries Lafayette and Printemps, both shut on what would normally have been one of their busiest days just before Christmas. |
| Protests are also under way in many towns and cities outside Paris, of course. | Protests are also under way in many towns and cities outside Paris, of course. |
| In Lyon, gilets jaunes joined a separate climate march, which totalled 7,000 demonstrators. Other marches are getting underway in Bordeaux and Nantes. | In Lyon, gilets jaunes joined a separate climate march, which totalled 7,000 demonstrators. Other marches are getting underway in Bordeaux and Nantes. |
| In Toulouse, Le Monde’s correspondent reports that about 300 demonstrators have gathered and are singing the French national anthem ahead of a planned protest march due to begin soon: | In Toulouse, Le Monde’s correspondent reports that about 300 demonstrators have gathered and are singing the French national anthem ahead of a planned protest march due to begin soon: |
| Environ 300 GJ entonnent La Marseillaise à Toulouse à Arnaud Bernard en attendant lycéens et étudiants et la marche pour le climat qui devrait débuter à 14 h pic.twitter.com/t5Ap8MuHvy | Environ 300 GJ entonnent La Marseillaise à Toulouse à Arnaud Bernard en attendant lycéens et étudiants et la marche pour le climat qui devrait débuter à 14 h pic.twitter.com/t5Ap8MuHvy |
| More figures, this time from the interior ministry: | More figures, this time from the interior ministry: |
| By 1pm local time on Saturday, 31,000 gilets jaunes protesters had been recorded across France, compared with 36,000 at the same time last weekend. | By 1pm local time on Saturday, 31,000 gilets jaunes protesters had been recorded across France, compared with 36,000 at the same time last weekend. |
| Police had stopped and questioned a total of 700 people, including 575 in Paris. | Police had stopped and questioned a total of 700 people, including 575 in Paris. |