{"id":43029,"date":"2019-01-21T07:52:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T12:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43029"},"modified":"2019-01-21T07:52:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T12:52:41","slug":"macronist-repression-against-the-people-in-yellow-vests%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43029","title":{"rendered":"Macronist Repression Against the People in Yellow Vests\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/01\/21\/macronist-repression-against-the-people-in-yellow-vests\/\">Macronist Repression Against the People in Yellow Vests<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A State of Emergency That Does Not Say His Name<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Vincent Brengarth, a lawyer at the Paris Bar, in recent years we have been witnessing a disturbing drift in police repression in France, more specifically since November 2015 when the state of emergency was pronounced and extended several times, before being integrated into common law. We would henceforth be under \u201ca state of emergency that does not say its name,\u201d with preventive arrests only based on suspicion, without concrete evidence of an offence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Figures from the Ministry of Law Enforcement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Saturday, 8th December, the \u201cYellow Vests\u201d movement maintained its progress as it gathered a total of 136,000 demonstrators throughout the country (including nearly 10,000 in Paris), a comparable level on Saturday the 1<sup>st<\/sup>of December while 106,301 people were counted during the previous weekend, according to the, regularly underestimated, figures of the Ministry of the Interior. In the wake of the mobilisation on the 1<sup>st&nbsp;<\/sup>of December, the Minister Christophe Castaner was quick to review the figures of the 24th of November, as he re-evaluated the number of protesters to 166,000 people instead of the previously announced 106,000. We may notice this jump of nearly 60,000 people that suddenly appeared in the Department\u2019s own numbers, an accounting manipulation that allows to say that the movement is decreasing\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Paris on insurgent alert<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For this fourth Saturday of demonstrations for the Yellow Vests, 89,000 members of the so-called \u201claw\u201d enforcement authorities were mobilised, including 8,000 in Paris, supported by 14 \u201cVBRG\u201d\u00a0<em>(V\u00e9hicules Blind\u00e9s \u00e0 Roues de la Gendarmerie \u2013 Wheeled Armoured Vehicles of the Gendarmerie)<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macronist Repression Against the People in Yellow Vests A State of Emergency That Does Not Say His Name According to Vincent Brengarth, a lawyer at the Paris Bar, in recent years we have been witnessing a disturbing drift in police repression in France, more specifically since November 2015 when the state of emergency was pronounced [&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":[5493,15342,333,24070,632,7305,24071,23287],"class_list":["post-43029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-counterpunch","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-france","tag-jerome-duval","tag-police","tag-repression","tag-state-repression","tag-yellow-vest-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43029","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=43029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43030,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43029\/revisions\/43030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}