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Police use a water cannon during clashes with protesters, called yellow jackets, on the famous Champs-Elysees Avenue in Paris, while they were protesting against rising taxes on gasoline , France, Saturday, November 24, 2018. France is deploying thousands of police officers angry at the rise in taxes on gasoline and the presidency of Emmanuel Macron. (Kamil Zihnioglu / Associated Press)
PARIS – French police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters in Paris on Saturday as thousands of people gathered in the capital and organized roadblocks across the country to take revenge for the violence. higher taxes on fuels and Emmanuel Macron's presidency.
Thousands of police were deployed throughout the country to contain the demonstrations, including a protesters at the foot of the Champs-Elysees, where protesters carried placards on which was written "Death to Taxes" and where a large vehicle had been return.
Nobody was injured in the clashes, but six were arrested for "throwing missiles," police said in Paris at the Associated Press.
"This will trigger a civil war and I, like most citizens, are all ready," said Benjamin Vrignaud, a 21-year-old protester from Chartres.
The famous avenue was spotted early in the morning in the neon – because of the color of the vests, the myriad of protesters so-called "yellow jacket". French drivers are required to keep neon safety vests in their vehicles.
Five thousand protesters have invaded the Champs-Elysees alone, with a total of 23,000 protesters across the country, according to the Minister of the Interior, Christophe Castaner.
During a week of protests that dominated the national news coverage, hundreds of people were injured and two people died in crashes resulting from protests.
The unrest is a major challenge for Macron, who is in trouble, suffers from the elections and provokes anger from the protesters, who accuse the pro-business centrist of indifference to the struggles of the ordinary French.
Macron insisted that fuel tax increases are a necessary pain to reduce France's dependence on fossil fuels and to finance investments in renewable energy, the cornerstone of its reforms. from the country. He will defend new projects to facilitate the "energy transition" on Tuesday.
Paris has deployed nearly 3,000 security forces on Saturday, including in areas frequented by tourists, after an unauthorized attempt to parade last week on the presidential palace of the Elysee.
Authorities said the protesters had so far not crossed an exclusion zone created by authorities around key areas, including the Presidential Palace and the National Assembly, on the left bank of the Seine.
But the authorities are struggling because the movement does not have a clear leader and has attracted a motley group of people with very different demands.
A man provoked a dramatic confrontation with police on Friday when he donned a neon jacket and brandished an apparent grenade in a supermarket in Angers (west). He was later arrested.
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