After the massive riots in the recent yellow West-protests in Paris, US President, Donald Trump has attacked the climate policy of the French government. “How does the Paris climate protection agreement for France?”, Trump wrote on Saturday in the short message service Twitter. “Not so well, I guess after the 18 weeks of ongoing unrest, the yellow West-protesters!” At the same time, Trump praised his own climate policy. The United States had risen to “all the lists to the environment to the top”.
Trump had already commented previously on several occasions to the protests and among other things, as evidence for the correctness of his climate hostile to the policy considered. France’s foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian was to them the comments of the US President. “I say to Donald Trump and the President of the Republic says to him: We do not participate in the American debates, let our life as a Nation,” said Le Drian.
since November, the ongoing weekly protests had prices originally in the high fuel and of the planned Eco-ignited Diesel. Later, a General discontent with the policy of the government of President Emmanuel Macron intervened in the Protest.
climate change is drawn by Trump in doubt. He had already announced a few months after taking office, the withdrawal of the USA from the global Paris agreement on climate protection and officially.
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rioters had looted on Saturday in the Parisian splendid Boulevard of the Champs-Elysées shops and set fire to it. They erected burning barricades and set fire to a Bank branch. The fire in the residential building, eleven people were injured. Nearly 240 people were arrested. (AFP)
