#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #FRANCE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) ait russia:France: "For the honor of working people and a better world!" (ca, de, it, pt)[machine translation]

 The protest movement of the "yellow vests", outraged citizens and supporters of

the "freedom caravans" brought tens of thousands of people onto the streets and
roads of France on February 12 against the "sanitary" dictatorship and against
the neoliberal socio-economic policies of the Macron regime. The speeches covered
the whole country. In a number of places they turned into real street fights with
the repressive forces of the state. ---- The central manifestation of the "yellow
vests" this time took place in the southern French city of Montpellier. Here, at
least 6,000 demonstrators gathered on Comedy Square. The gathering began at
14.00. At 14.30 the column moved forward. In the front row of demonstrators,
there were about 30 people dressed in yellow fluorescent vests. One of the
organizers, Rocco, announced at the beginning of the demonstration that all those
wishing to go to Paris and Brussels to support the "freedom caravans" could
gather again in the same square after the procession ended.

The atmosphere quickly heated up, especially when the demonstrators, contrary to
the ban, moved to the city center, to the prefecture. Before the procession and
behind it, by 14.40, 40 officers of the CRS police special forces in full combat
attire took up positions. The first clashes broke out near the prefecture and
then continued to Peira. The demonstrators were blocked between the squares of
the Prefecture and Peyrou. They took the fight. Black bloc activists blocked the
road with burning garbage cans and rained down stones, firecrackers and other
objects on the forces of repression. The police retreated under their onslaught,
snarling with tear gas. ATMs and showcases of four bank branches were smashed.
Shop windows in the central streets of Rue de la Loge and Rue de Maguelon were
particularly affected. From Peyrou, the demonstrators went to the station along
the Boulevard Jeu-de-Paume, and then returned to Place de la Comédie. There
again, the repressive forces began to gass those who had gathered. After dark,
the protesters broke into groups and continued to resist. The fight scenes were
reminiscent of the peak period of the radical yellow vest demonstrations, showing
that the intensity of anger had not gone anywhere. The barricades blazed in the
darkness of the evening. Losses on our side: 8 demonstrators captured by the police

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The day before, on February 11, protesters across France took to the roads to
support the cars of the "freedom caravan" heading to Paris and further to
Brussels. Rally participants express solidarity with the protest of Canadian
truck drivers, speaking out against the "sanitary" dictatorship and the rising
cost of living. To prevent the advance of spontaneous caravans, the repressive
forces of the state put up barriers in front of Paris, preventing the protesters
from entering the capital. In Paris, demonstrations were banned, dozens of
armored personnel carriers were placed on the streets and especially in front of
the Arc de Triomphe. Paris began to resemble a city captured by the enemy. The
main bandit, the state, acted as the occupier. To maintain capitalist order,
7,000 policemen and gendarmes were brought out into the streets.

For the Parisian "yellow jackets" it was already the 170th weekly "act of
protest". Since the end of 2018, they have been challenging and damaging the
nerves of Macron's democrats, trying to replace a self-satisfied politician who
has seized power. "Yellow Vests" announced 4 different actions. The day began at
10.30 am with a gathering and a rally on Republic Square, then the participants
divided into several groups. A group of "yellow vests and angry citizens" at
14.30 moved from the Place d'Italie to the Place d'Nation. The "Citizens and
Yellow Vests" team gathered at Victor and Helen Basch Square, from where they
headed towards Mireille Ave Square. The column of the "Civil Union for Freedom
and the Yellow Power" gathered at 14.15 in the Place Pierre Laroque, not far from
the Ministry of Health, and headed for the Pfizer headquarters on Romain Rolland
Boulevard.

The repressive forces began to attack the protesters in the area of Italian
Square even before the demonstration began. Gas was released. In response, the
radical demonstrators fought. They attacked one of the police cars. This angered
French far-right leader Marine Len Pen, who tweeted that "far-left militias" were
misrepresenting the "popular movement", attacking the police and crushing
everything, calling for them to be dispersed. After the start of the procession,
clashes between the demonstrators and the police broke out repeatedly. At 15.38
there were clashes on the embankment near the National Library. In an attempt to
disperse the protesters, the repressive forces used gas.

Although the progress of the "caravan of freedom" was slowed down by police
controls, some of the participants were able to reach the capital and enter it,
despite all the prohibitions. Cars, motor homes and vans left Nice, Lille,
Strasbourg, Vimy (Pas de Calais) or Chateaubourg (Île-et-Villaine), traveling for
two or three days at reduced speed on secondary roads, reaching the capital .
After camping at the gates of Paris on Friday evening, some of the participants
(a total of 3,000 vehicles for 5,000 demonstrators, according to police) drove
onto the ring road of Paris on Saturday morning, where (around 2:30 p.m.) 337
people were fined for "participating in an unsanctioned demonstration . The
repressive forces tried to prevent the blockade of the Champs-Elysées and, closer
to 13.45, began to disperse those who had arrived or had come there. However,
around 14. 00 about a hundred cars arrived on the avenue. Some walked on foot
waving flags and chanting "Freedom!"

Members of the caravan blocked traffic on the central avenue of Paris, gas was
used against them. The police shooed pedestrians away from the Arc de Triomphe
and began pushing the demonstrators back into the parks at the other end of the
avenue.

"We were in Paris from 17.00 the day before, like a Trojan horse. We were
invisible; we wanted to blend in with the crowd. I am a "yellow vest", but there
were many new demonstrators. At 13.15 we decided to meet at the Arc de Triomphe,
because we knew that many of the caravan were there. Car caravans - that was the
test. There are other demonstrators who will come today. You can't vaccinate by
force," explained 57-year-old Laura, an instructor at a driving school in the
department of Seine-et-Marne and an opponent of the "vaccine passport", hiding
from the gas.

"Even if Macron does not want it, we are here for the honor of workers and for a
better world," the demonstrators chanted.

At 2:36 p.m., the street was enveloped in clouds of tear gas. At 2:53 p.m., the
gas spread along the street, including crawling into the famous fashionable
Fouquet confectionery; the battles were in full swing. At 15.36 the confrontation
continued; gas enveloped the terraces of restaurants on the Champs Elysees,
causing panic among visitors and tourists. By 4:07 pm, the contractions had
spread to neighboring streets. Chaos reigned in the center of Paris. During the
arrests, one of the leading activists of the Yellow Vests, Jerome Rodriguez, was
also detained. At 5:44 pm, the Champs-Elysees remained a theater of battle:
arrests, police attacks, retaliatory hail of stones and firecrackers, gas flows,
barricades... By 6:25 pm, the demonstrators were blocking trucks with CRS police
commandos! At 18.37 it began to get dark, but the fighting did not subside. On
the contrary, the number of protesters was increasing: obviously, people were
coming, who had previously participated in other demonstrations. Despite all
attempts, the repressive forces failed to disperse the crowd, who openly
challenged the prohibitions of Macron's authorities. By 19.00 the confrontation
continued in the dark; by this time, the blockade, arranged by the "freedom
caravan", had already lasted 5 hours. Around 2100, police officers in full combat
gear continued to attack the demonstrators, either driving them away or rolling
back themselves. The battles went on until the very night, and only by 23.30 the
armored personnel carriers of the repressive forces began to leave the Champs
Elysees, where comparative calm was established. by this time, the blockade,
arranged by the "freedom caravan", had already lasted 5 hours. Around 2100,
police officers in full combat gear continued to attack the demonstrators, either
driving them away or rolling back themselves. The battles went on until the very
night, and only by 23.30 the armored personnel carriers of the repressive forces
began to leave the Champs Elysees, where comparative calm was established. by
this time, the blockade, arranged by the "freedom caravan", had already lasted 5
hours. Around 2100, police officers in full combat gear continued to attack the
demonstrators, either driving them away or rolling back themselves. The battles
went on until the very night, and only by 23.30 the armored personnel carriers of
the repressive forces began to leave the Champs Elysees, where comparative calm
was established.

According to police, a total of 54 people were captured in the capital. The
number of wounded is unknown.

In Perigueux, about 60 cars staged a "snail operation", slowing down traffic in
the city. The same kind of actions were carried out on many highways and roads in
France. In the forest of Fontainebleau, 1,000 people gathered in 400 cars and
wagons; they had a protest picnic, discussing the following measures: to go by
caravan to Brussels. Its own "caravan of freedom" was arranged even in the
distant Reunion!

Demonstrations and protests took place in Avignon, Agen, Angouleme, Angers,
Annecy, Ajaccio, Bayonne, Besançon, Beziers, Beauvais, Bordeaux, Bourg-en-Bresse,
Vannes, Versailles, Vichy, Voiron, Gape, Grenoble, Dijon, Dole, Draguignan,
Dreux, Canet, Caores, Colmar, Crollet, Lannion, La Rochelle, Le Mans, Lille,
Lyon, Lorien, Marseille, Maubourg, Mulhouse, Nantes, Narbonne, Nice, Auxerre,
Aurillac, Aucher, Perpignan, Rennes, Rouen, Royan, Celeste, Saint-Brieque,
Saint-Dieu-des-Vosges, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Nazaire,
Saint-Florent-des-Bois, Strasbourg, Thonon-les-Bains, Toulon, Toulouse, Touret,
Fréjus, Chalons-en-Champagne, Chambéry, Chantilly, Chartres, Chateauroux, Cholet,
Chaumont, Erblay and other cities

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