16 March 2019

"It’s the apocalypse!"

The newspapers are calling it, "an orgy of anti-capitalist destruction"...
On Saturday, the demonstrators returned in their thousands to once again transform the Champs Elysees — a symbol of French power and luxury — into a battlefield. By the early evening, 151 people had been arrested.

Interior Minister Christophe Castaner blamed the violence on “over 1,500 ultra-violent people who came to smash things up, do battle and attack.
I don't get France... they're either running for their lives, or re-enacting, usually really ineptly... the Charge of the Light Brigade.

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UPDATE: Well, they have to punish someone...
"The French government will replace the Paris police chief and ban rallies in some areas, after Saturday's violent protests."