It is the demonstrators of the protest movement ‘cardigans jaunes’ (yellow vests) are not allowed on and around the Champs-Elysées in central Paris to protest. Also the surroundings of the parliament house and the Elysée is from now on prohibited grounds. That has the head of the police in the French capital, announced yesterday. But it is not only important pieces of Paris are betogingsvrij. A lot of other major cities in the republic prohibit the use of yellow vests this weekend on the streets. These include Bordeaux, Toulouse and Nice.
The Paris police chief made the decision known just before the nineteenth protestzaterdag of the yellow vests. “There are serious reasons to suspect that the violence and destruction re-will occur”, so it motivates the new prefect of the police of Didier Lallement.
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The yellow bibs argue especially against the erosion of purchasing power by ‘klimaatbelastingen’ of the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and against his economic policy. But at the demonstrations, it tends to get out of hand, especially at the hands of black-shrouded rioters and looters who ‘casseurs’ (breakers) to be called. the
Last weekend, on the eighteenth protestzaterdag, there were especially on the Champs-Elysées again, plenty of looting and destruction. For example, a world-famous restaurant is almost completely destroyed and became a bank with apartments above on fire. There were a total of 27 stores looted and 124 are damaged.