Very little coverage of the unrest in France in the US media...
Police officers walk on the Champs-Elysees during a “Yellow vest” protests against higher fuel prices, in Paris, France, Nov. 24, 2018. (Photo: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters)
Officers take their positions during clashes with demonstrators protesting with others against the rising of the fuel taxes, on the famed Champs Elysees avenue, in Paris, France, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. (Photo: Kamil Zihnioglu/AP)
Plumes of smoke are seen near the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs-Elysees avenue decorated with the Christmas lightings during a protest against tax Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018 in Paris. (Photo: Christophe Ena/AP)
Anti-government protesters clashed with French police on the Champs-Elysees in Paris on Saturday, leaving the area cloaked in tear gas and smoke from fires on a fresh day of demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron.
A protester wearing yellow vest, a symbol of a French drivers’ protest against higher fuel prices, talks to the police officer in Paris, France, Nov. 24, 2018. (Photo: Benoit Tessier/Reuters)
Demonstrators wearing the yellow, high-visibility vests that symbolize their movement threw projectiles at police preventing them from moving along the famed shopping avenue, which was decked out in twinkling Christmas lights.
They also built barricades in some spots, and tore down traffic lights and street signs, creating riotous scenes reminiscent of France’s 1968 civil unrest, or street insurrections in the mid-19th century immortalized in paintings and movies.
Police arrested 130 people, 42 of those in Paris, and 24 people were injured, five of them police officers including one who suffered burns to his groin, the city police department and Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said. (AFP)