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Jacline Mouraud, an accordionist whose YouTube tirade on rising fuel prices has propelled it to the forefront of the revolt of French motorists, hopes that the blockade of Saturday's roads will be the beginning of something grand.
"I know people who wish to interrupt the traffic for several days," said the 51-year-old from Bohal, in western France, in the heart of Brittany, rich of a long story of tax uprisings.
In a few weeks, Mouraud has become the most important face of a resistance movement led by drivers upset by soaring fuel prices, which they blame for rising taxes.
It's a much bigger scene for the former accordionist at the music hall, whose biggest notoriety so far was to get his picture in the local paper after composing an alternative to "La Marseillaise", French national martial anthem .
The media has shone the spotlight on the work of Mouraud's hypnotherapist and her belief in the paranormal – including the ectoplasm, a substance supposedly secreted by psychics during her sessions – for which she has been the subject of sneaky comments.
Mouraud, unperturbed, refers to former President Francois Mitterrand, who reportedly declared before his death that he "believed in spiritual forces".
She also rejects those who mock her warnings about "chemtrails", a favorite of conspiracy theorists who believe that governments are spraying citizens with a lot of harmful chemicals. "I do not care," she said.
The mother of three adult children, media savvy, says she is more interested in the defense of the dozens of people who have contacted her since her October video, where she blames President Emmanuel Macron for her work. have forced those at the bottom of the social ladder.
Among them are a 71-year-old pensioner "who can not afford to eat after the 10th of each month" and "just waiting for death", and a 36-year-old 36-year-old mother who only wins 515 euros ($ 585) per month.
"Do you think I'm going to drop them?" Said Mouraud.
"As long as I can speak, I will speak for them."
– & # 39; How can they be so thick? & # 39; –
Mouraud fought back against the "Parisian elites" who, according to them, do not understand the challenges facing the vast majority of French people.
She says she lives with 1,000 euros a month and only owns "her car", a black diesel SUV that she bought for 11,000 euros 10 years ago – when the fuel tax made diesel more attractive that essence.
But Macron, who has promised to "revitalize our planet," plans to continue fuel tax increases introduced by his socialist predecessor, Francois Hollande, ultimately making highly polluting diesel the most fuel-efficient option. expensive.
While oil prices are rising, fuel prices have risen again, and voter anger has rocketed the "Yellow Vests" movement, which began Saturday in a national stalemate.
In an attempt to defuse the anger, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe pledged assistance to low-income households, including energy subsidies and higher scrap incentives for cleaner vehicles.
Like many, Mouraud rejects the measures by calling them "smoke and mirrors".
"How can they be so bulky? They tax, offer help, then tax the help and all over again: the Prime Minister has managed only to put the French even more." angry, "she says.
Mouraud will participate in Saturday's protests in the back of a motorcycle, roaming the dams to encourage them.
She hopes that they will give victory to the "biggest political party in France: the people".
Jacline Mouraud hopes that a protest against rising fuel prices will help create "the largest political party in France, that of the people".
