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France – The demonstrations against the "yellow vests" lost their strength Saturday in France, with less than a thousand demonstrators in Paris, in a new mobilization course marked by the 10th victim related to the movement. Finally, on Friday night, emergency measures of 10 billion euros aimed at reducing the tax burden and increasing the purchasing power, key claims of "yellow vests". But many of them do not seem ready to put an end to the mobilization, which has caused the worst social crisis since the arrival of Emmanuel Macron 19 months ago. a much smaller number of protesters. In front of the Palace of Versailles, located 20 km from Paris and visited by millions of tourists each year, where a large event was planned, only 60 "yellow vests" were present at noon.
In the nation's capital, nearly 800 "yellow vests" demonstrated peacefully in various parts of the city, including in the tourist district of Montmartre, police said. On Avenue des Champs-Elysees, the epicenter of previous events, cafes and restaurants have been preparing to welcome guests. The referendum on citizen initiatives, which the government had promised to study, is one of the protesters' demands.
Police have asked Paris companies to "stay alert" on a very important day for Christmas shopping. Last week, 69,000 members of the security forces were on the streets, including 8,000 in Paris, supported by armored police vehicles.
The "yellow vests" also called for the blockade of trucks at the borders. More than 300 protesters blocked Saturday a road on a highway in Boulou, near the Spanish border.
They let vehicles pbad, but closed the way to trucks, symbols of Spanish imports in France, criticized for their price below what the movement considers fair.
Dozens of separatist activists from Catalonia joined the French protesters. The "yellow vests" respected a minute of silence in the honor of the tenth death related to the demonstrations, reported Friday by a driver who had hit a truck stopped during a blockade on a highway near Perpignan, in the south of the country. from the country. Disturbances have also been recorded at the border with Belgium.
The unknown of this Saturday was the number of participants. From the climax of November 17, with 282,000 demonstrators, the mobilization continues to fall: 166 people were present on November 24, 8,136,000 on December 1 and 66,000 "yellow jackets" last week. Hundreds of blockades of protesters have been dismantled by security forces.
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