France: “State of Insurrection” as Fuel Tax Riots Engulf Central Paris
December 1st, 2018There are many images at Daily Mail.
Via: Reuters:
Rioters ran amok across central Paris on Saturday, torching cars and buildings, looting shops, smashing windows and clashing with police in the worst unrest in more than a decade, posing a dire challenge to Emmanuel Macron’s presidency.
The authorities were caught off guard by the escalation in violence after two weeks of nationwide protests against fuel taxes and living costs, known as the “yellow vest” movement after fluorescent jackets kept in all vehicles in France.
In Paris, police said they had arrested almost 300 people while 110 were injured, including 20 members of the security forces. Police fired stun grenades, tear gas and water cannon at protesters at the top of the Champs-Elysees boulevard, at the Tuilleries Garden near the Louvre museum and other sites.
In some areas there was virtually no police presence at all, as groups of masked men roamed in the shadows of the capital’s fabled landmarks and through its fanciest shopping districts, smashing the windows of designer boutiques.
They’ll protest and wreck the place over fuel tax rises but do nothing over their country turning into a third world Islamic dump.
File Under : IRONY
At the same time as the fuel tax protests are being used as an excuse for a little general rioting in the streets of Paris, the EU continues their full court press on Luxembourg to RAISE their fuel taxes, because hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals from all sides — France, Belgium & Germany — engage in weekly “tanken tourismus”. That is, driving a few extra kilometers to fill up at anywhere from 20-60 cents per liter less. Luxembourg has recently agreed to do so — just “not yet”. (chuckle) As one of the many who wander over the border on a regular basis, you just gotta love the attitude. To my mind, Luxembourg is simply out-competing the rest. An easy way to spot the simple truth that the PTB here on the Continent aren’t actually capitalists is their complete inability to understand such a basic economic principle…