Clashes Erupt on French Streets, 'Yellow Vests' Return
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It all started with a TikTok video posted by a young man in early September calling for a demonstration on October 17th over rising fuel prices, and a series of messages on different social media platforms calling for the return of the yellow vests, the protest movement that brought thousands of French people to the streets in 2018, exasperated by their loss of purchasing power. Eight years ago, the trigger was precisely the high price of gasoli…
Paris was gripped by protests: "yellow vests" and students protested against rising prices. According to the Europe 1 TV channel, 60 to 110 thousand people may take to the streets of French cities today
Paris is gripped by protests: "yellow vests" and students protested against rising pricesAccording to the Europe 1 TV channel, 60 to 110 thousand people may take to the streets of French cities today.Representatives of the Yellow Vests movement...
The return of the "yellow vests", almost eight years after the birth of this protest movement, provoked on Saturday blockades, other actions and the first clashes between riot control forces and demonstrators in several French cities, including Paris, Strasbourg, Lille, Montauban, Lyon, Marseille, Rennes and Bordeaux.
Dozens of people were detained on Saturday in riots that broke out in major French cities, at the start of public demonstrations called by the former yellow vest movement to protest livelihood problems, while high school students who had been protesting for a month over underfunding of public education also took to the streets again.
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