France Protests: Who Is on the Streets and What Do They Want?
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The youth of France rebelled, in its wake of other sectors of a society that had been exhausted and exhausted by years of neoliberal abuse. Faced with this outbreak that it had not been able to predict, the executive applied the usual strategy: police repression, media defamation, technological diversion, minimal concessions. In addition to this, an attempt to divide — between good and bad protesters — which for the moment seemed futile. The mov…
France Protests: Who Is on the Streets and What Do They Want?
Some protesters used hammers to rip slabs from the road and throw them at police officers.
António Oliveira e Silva considers the incidents of October 17 to be among the most violent of the last decades in France. The journalist talks about police reinforcement to avoid further confrontations.
These were scenes that those living in ailing democracies watched with envy, but perhaps the sound of the drum was pleasant from afar. In France, a protest movement started by high school students last month turned into a demonstration on October 17th for various demands, primarily the high cost of living. While the majority of the demonstrations, which involved at least 500,000 people, began peacefully, organized violence and looting left secur…
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