{"id":41667,"date":"2018-12-14T12:55:37","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T17:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41667"},"modified":"2018-12-14T12:55:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T17:55:37","slug":"french-police-brace-for-fifth-wave-of-yellow-vest-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41667","title":{"rendered":"French Police Brace for Fifth Wave of Yellow Vest Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<footer class=\"node__meta\">\n<div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 a2a_default_style\" data-a2a-icon-color=\"#222\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-12-14\/french-police-brace-fifth-wave-yellow-vest-protests\">French Police Brace for Fifth Wave of Yellow Vest Protests<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>France is set to deploy tens of thousands of police and gendarmes across the country on Saturday, including 8,000 in Paris, to deal with a fifth weekend of Yellow Vest protests &#8211; just days after three people were killed and 13 injured after\u00a0a mass shooting in the eastern city of\u00a0Strasbourg.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/DuYqPt6XgAAwDlO.jpg?itok=2S9ecBMl\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/DuYqPt6XgAAwDlO.jpg?itok=2S9ecBMl\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/DuYqPt6XgAAwDlO.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/DuYqPt6XgAAwDlO.jpg?itok=2S9ecBMl 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"4026e909-b969-4c63-83f9-916bd8c18dfb\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paris police chief Michel Delpuech said authorities are on watch for &#8220;violent groups&#8221; infiltrating the protests, and that riot officers will protect landmarks such as the Arc de Triomphe and the presidential palace, reports\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-france-protests-preps\/french-police-prepare-for-fifth-wave-of-yellow-vest-protests-idUSKBN1OD1LF?utm_source=reddit.com\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"apester-loading-container apester-hidden\">\n<p>&#8220;<strong>We need to be prepared for worst-case scenarios<\/strong>,&#8221; Delpuech told\u00a0<em>RTL\u00a0<\/em>radio, who added that he doesn&#8217;t expect businesses in the capital to suffer the same level of disruption as they have over the past three weeks, when major stores and hotels suffered a dramatic drop in business as tourists avoided the area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/KUX2y8Dq.jpg?itok=CIaPjgvQ\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/KUX2y8Dq.jpg?itok=CIaPjgvQ\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/KUX2y8Dq.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/KUX2y8Dq.jpg?itok=CIaPjgvQ 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"1da7a04d-a666-4e9e-95e7-90d64f489e8d\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This weekend&#8217;s Yellow Vest protests, nicknamed &#8220;Acte V&#8221; &#8211; mark the fifth week of anti-government outrage which began over opposition to an announced fuel-tax designed to pay for climate change policies.<\/p>\n<p>Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said it was time for the Yellow Vests to tone down their protests and acknowledge that they had achieved their goals after French President Emmanuel Macron rolled out a series of economic and tax incentives, including a minimum wage hike, no tax on overtime pay, tax-free year-end bonuses, and a six month delay to the fuel tax.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/DuYX1slUwAExGeB.jpg?itok=jwHNUpJN\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/DuYX1slUwAExGeB.jpg?itok=jwHNUpJN\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/DuYX1slUwAExGeB.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/DuYX1slUwAExGeB.jpg?itok=jwHNUpJN 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"270\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"7d58b388-b546-4877-a8b8-11de6428f7ab\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While most French people polled by Odoxa said they found Macron&#8217;s proposal &#8220;satisfactory,&#8221; 59% of those polled say they were &#8220;not convinced&#8221; by the measures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>54% of those surveyed said the Yellow Vest protests should continue<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the Yellow Vests have flat-out rejected Macron&#8217;s proposals, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.european-views.com\/2018\/12\/yellow-vests-angered-by-macrons-speech-offering-them-crumbs\/\">European-Views<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French Police Brace for Fifth Wave of Yellow Vest Protests France is set to deploy tens of thousands of police and gendarmes across the country on Saturday, including 8,000 in Paris, to deal with a fifth weekend of Yellow Vest protests &#8211; just days after three people were killed and 13 injured after\u00a0a mass shooting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[333,23500,2510,683,23287,4318],"class_list":["post-41667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-france","tag-french-police","tag-paris","tag-reuters","tag-yellow-vest-protests","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41668,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41667\/revisions\/41668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}