{"id":44851,"date":"2019-03-28T09:42:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T14:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44851"},"modified":"2019-03-28T09:42:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T14:42:55","slug":"firing-on-protesters-will-macrons-new-tactics-against-the-yellow-vests-make-simmering-pot-boil-over-%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44851","title":{"rendered":"Firing on Protesters: Will Macron\u2019s New Tactics Against the Yellow Vests Make Simmering Pot Boil Over? \ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Firing on Protesters: Will Macron\u2019s New Tactics Against the Yellow Vests Make Simmering Pot Boil Over? <\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

France stands at a crossroads, with the Macron government attempting to drag the country in a new direction and a disunited and leaderless movement attempting to reverse this change. The outcome of this battle will shape the course of Western Europe\u2019s largest country for decades to come.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NICE, FRANCE \u2014<\/strong> A 73-year-old activist is the latest casualty of French President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s crackdown on the Gilets Jaunes protest movement. Genevi\u00e8ve Legay of the anti-globalization group Attac had her skull fractured<\/a> by police in Nice as they charged at her during the nineteenth consecutive week of protests against the president\u2019s unpopular austerity and tax policies. The feminist campaigner and grandmother was carrying<\/a> a rainbow flag marked \u201cpeace\u201d as she was attacked, in what her family calls<\/a> \u201cwillful violence\u201d in an official complaint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The embattled president went after Legay, currently in serious condition in the hospital, lecturing her<\/a> on her \u201cirresponsibility\u201d for being in a \u201cprohibited\u201d area, claiming<\/a> that, \u201cwhen one is fragile and risks being shoved, one does not go to places that are declared off-limits and one does not put oneself in that kind of situation,\u201d adding that he wished her \u201ca speedy recovery\u2026and perhaps a kind of wisdom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macron\u2019s comments have been received by many as a calculated addition of insult to injury. Leftist presidential candidate Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon claimed<\/a> Legay did not need his lessons in wisdom while Nicolas Dupont-Aignan of the right-wing Stand Up France group derided<\/a> Macron\u2019s \u201carrogance\u201d and \u201cinhumanity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The origins of the Gilet Jaunes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Firing on Protesters: Will Macron\u2019s New Tactics Against the Yellow Vests Make Simmering Pot Boil Over?  France stands at a crossroads, with the Macron government attempting to drag the country in a new direction and a disunited and leaderless movement attempting to reverse this change. The outcome of this battle will shape the course of […]<\/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":[21949,15342,333,24074],"class_list":["post-44851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-alan-macleod","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-france","tag-gilets-jaunes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44851","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=44851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44852,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44851\/revisions\/44852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}