various routes and fuel refineries woke up locked on Monday in cities across France, as part of the so-called “Yellow Jackets movement” that began on Saturday with a massive mobilization against the increase in the fuel tax. According to official figures, there were two thousand protest actions across the country involving 300 thousand people during the weekend. Authorities confirmed that a retired woman died after being run over in a picket, there are 400 wounded, 14 of them seriously, and almost 300 detainees.
The protests were replicated in several cities in France who are the “Yellow Jackets” is a movement that is was organized without political structure a leadership course and which grew through social networks. They are workers, humble employees and precarious, low-wage, which must travel several kilometres each day to go to their workplaces. The recent rise in tax to gasoline put their budgets in check and they decided to take to the streets dressed in fluorescent yellow vests. THE impact of the AUMENTOLlenar tank has risen from 45 to 65 euros the jackets yellow must travel up to 80 km per day to get to their jobs with salaries that do not reach the 1,300 euros a month, need at least 350 euros for fuel Chanta l Lapuerta, one of the mouthpieces of the movement, confirmed to the newspaper Le Figaro that many of the protesters will travel to Paris on November 24 “if President Emmanuel Macron is not pronounced on the price of fuel”.
Clashes with the police: there are almost 300 detainees “Yellow Jackets is none other than the middle class is in full uncertainty about their future, about their purchasing power. They ask Emmanuel Macron to listen. I hope to do so”, said the Republican Mayor of Troyes and former Minister of economy, François Baroin.
“We must work on a tax reform, taxes should be lowered. This is a message of warning deep.”
Now, through social networks, are calling on a great mobilisation for next Saturday. “You have to give the coup de grace and go to Paris by all possible means,” they said in the call published on Facebook, which has served as a platform to prepare actions and mobilise to the ciudadanos.143.000 users were “interested” by the event What gives appointment to the “Yellow Jackets” in the place de la Concorde in Paris between eight and eleven o’clock in the morning, to March towards the Palace Eliseo.en this note:
