Yellow vests - fuel protest day of action in France
Discussion
Wobbegong said:
La Liga said:
Predictable BBC bash. Second down for me on latest and most read (after the NZ murder).
The police and security numbers are something else.
My friend is in the Gendarmerie. He usually doesn’t worry about protests as it’s usually a minority of crusties stirring up trouble and demanding the ridiculous or ‘raising awareness’. This time it’s the normal French people who’ve had enough of government removing their cash and freedoms bit by bit. The police and security numbers are something else.
Smack a few crusties about, no one usually cares apart from other crusties. Start battering people that others can relate to, and you have the potential to open a whole tanker of worms.
As stated, police numbers are absolutely staggering.
Wobbegong said:
La Liga said:
Predictable BBC bash. Second down for me on latest and most read (after the NZ murder).
The police and security numbers are something else.
My friend is in the Gendarmerie. He usually doesn’t worry about protests as it’s usually a minority of crusties stirring up trouble and demanding the ridiculous or ‘raising awareness’. This time it’s the normal French people who’ve had enough of government removing their cash and freedoms bit by bit. The police and security numbers are something else.
Smack a few crusties about, no one usually cares apart from other crusties. Start battering people that others can relate to, and you have the potential to open a whole tanker of worms.
It's not been on the front page all morning because not much was happening. Again, unsurprisingly the 300 arrests have mostly been as police check people coming into the flashpoint areas for projectiles, ID and probably a bit of kicking off.
Unsurprisingly police tactics and preparations are not only better but larger in scale and this will mean there will be more arrests and more violence than would usually be undertaken.
I don't think we're at 1968 levels nor even 2005 levels, but of course anything can happen.
La Liga said:
Predictable BBC bash. Second down for me on latest and most read (after the NZ murder).
That swerve is transparent; was it not the content rather than positioning that was the main subject of comments?I read the BBC site recently and at that time the riots were top of the bill but there was no mention of e.g. the climate fairytales origin of Macron's now abandoned policy daftness.
Articles get updates, you can check to see if the coverage has improved if you like.
andy_s said:
This is the fourth weekend. The original 'disruptive' yet relatively peaceful idea has, unsurprisingly, been hijacked by more radical elements, similarly the list of complaints has grown from 20ppLt tax to pretty much anything and everything Macron has done plus the usual ills of society.
It's not been on the front page all morning because not much was happening. Again, unsurprisingly the 300 arrests have mostly been as police check people coming into the flashpoint areas for projectiles, ID and probably a bit of kicking off.
Unsurprisingly police tactics and preparations are not only better but larger in scale and this will mean there will be more arrests and more violence than would usually be undertaken.
I don't think we're at 1968 levels nor even 2005 levels, but of course anything can happen.
The '68 riots were something else. It's not been on the front page all morning because not much was happening. Again, unsurprisingly the 300 arrests have mostly been as police check people coming into the flashpoint areas for projectiles, ID and probably a bit of kicking off.
Unsurprisingly police tactics and preparations are not only better but larger in scale and this will mean there will be more arrests and more violence than would usually be undertaken.
I don't think we're at 1968 levels nor even 2005 levels, but of course anything can happen.
There's nothing succeeds in policing demonstrations than flooding the area with bodies.
La Liga said:
turbobloke said:
La Liga said:
Predictable BBC bash. Second down for me on latest and most read (after the NZ murder).
That swerve is transparentandy_s said:
La Liga said:
turbobloke said:
La Liga said:
Predictable BBC bash. Second down for me on latest and most read (after the NZ murder).
That swerve is transparentAs lightweight and unconvincing as it gets - 'all' La Liga had to do was avoid personal angles (ho ho ho) and provide on-topic evidence (none available) oh dear never mind.
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