Yellow Vest demonstrators took to the streets again today in Paris and other French cities. Police fired tear gas during clashes with the protesters. Thousands of British Yellow Vests also protested, and the Yellow Vest leader James Goddard was arrested by police.
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French police fire tear gas and water cannons in ninth-straight week of yellow-vest protests
French Government Moves to Impose a Police State in Response to Gilets Jaunes

Marking up the Arc de Triomphe, smashing the face of the Marianne statue, a symbol of the French state, and trashing private property along the Champs-Elysees will be considered minor incidents if the Yellow Vests pull off their next move—an organized run on the banks.
According to activist Tahz San, the aim of the latest protest is to “scare this (French) state completely legally and without any violence, yet more effectively than ever expected.”
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French Government Moves to Impose a Police State in Response to Gilets Jaunes

Paris police have fired water cannon and tear gas to repel “yellow vest” demonstrators from around the Arc de Triomphe monument in the ninth straight weekend of protests against French President Emmanuel Macron’s economic reforms.
Thousands of protesters also marched noisily but peacefully through the Grands Boulevards shopping area in northern Paris, close to where an unrelated gas explosion in a bakery killed two firefighters and one Spaniard, and injuring nearly 50 early on Saturday.
Central Paris was in lockdown against another feared eruption of violence by radical elements in the “gilets jaunes” (yellow vest) movement, with bridges across the Seine river closed and official buildings such as parliament and the Elysee presidential palace protected by police barriers.
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