In several places in France, there have been confrontations between the "gilets Jaunes" (yellow vests) and the police. Along the Seine in Paris, officers who were pelted with projectiles fired tear gas to keep demonstrators at bay.
That happened on a pedestrian bridge, among other things, as can be seen on images, but also at the parliament building and the d’Orsay museum. Barricades were erected and lit in a number of places. A boat restaurant also suffered. A policeman was injured on the Seine quay because a bicycle was thrown at him from above.
It was the eighth time that the yellow-jacketed movement proclaimed Saturday as a national protest day. Apart from the French capital, people took to the streets in, among others, Marseille, Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Lyon reports the newspaper Le Parisien, which also led to some disturbances.
The authorities estimate the turnout in all of France at 25,000, in Paris there were around 3500. The enthusiasm to demonstrate seems to be waning. At the first protest on November 17, nearly 300,000 people put themselves in yellow reflective vests.
Prior to the protest, the movement wrote in an open letter to President Macron that the “vests” are willing to “go much further.” Earlier this week, the figurehead of the French protest movement, Eric Drouet, was detained for a short time because of a demonstration was not allowed for.
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