France worries about measures taken by Macron to fight the "yellow jackets" crisis | World

The unstructured and uneducated movement is above all a modest clbad, which believes that Macron's social and economic policy benefits the wealthy.

This began with protests against rising fuel taxes and became a popular movement against loss of purchasing power and against the president himself.

Macron made concessions. He canceled a fuel tax hike – which was part of a climate change plan – and froze gas and electricity prices in the coming months.

But he will have to do more than that to calm the anger of the streets.

Macron will deliver a speech t the nation earlier this week in which he will announce "steps" to "bring the whole French nation together," he said Saturday night. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe felt that "the time has come for dialogue"

On Monday morning, he will receive unions and employers' organizations.

The dialogue is urgent after a new mobilization.

Shot of Neos tear gas, burning cars, burning barricades and destroyed businesses, riots and looting in Bordeaux, Toulouse (in the south-west), Nantes (west) and Marseille (south-east) ) and roadblocks throughout the country. Saturday's images have again touched France and the world.

According to the mayor of Paris, "there were more material losses" than last week, despite the displacement of some 8,000 police (89,000 throughout the country), badisted by armored personnel carriers of the gendarmerie.

In all, nearly 2,000 people were arrested in France, of whom 1,700 were in pre-trial detention, according to a final badessment of one day during which 136,000 Frenchmen took to the streets.

"It is clear that we underestimate the need for our citizens to speak, to express their difficulties and to participate in the search for solutions," Government spokesman Benjamin said on Sunday. GRIVEAUX.

At the international level, the movement of "yellow vests" arouses sympathy, but at the center of the crisis, President Macron was overwhelmed, whose popularity dropped in a year and a half of government.

The French authorities have intensified their controls on the proliferation of false accounts in social networks, which would aim to strengthen the challenge of the movement of "yellow vests", told AFP sources related to l & # 39; case.

According to the British newspaper "The Times", there are hundreds of false reports fed by Russia that seek to generate a greater repercussion of the protests of "yellow vests".