After pausing for the coronavirus lockdown and summer holidays, the Yellow Vests brought their anger back to the streets for a series of protests in Paris and a number of other French cities. Their last major protest was on 14 March, on the eve of local elections. This was just three days before the country went into lockdown for Covid-19. The protests were in defiance of a ban from President Macron over mass gatherings. It is almost two years since the first Yellow Vest protest on 17 November 2018. Their numbers at first soared and then ebbed. The question now is whether they will rise again like a phoenix from the ashes as social dissension grows over Covid restrictions. People fear another outbreak of violence on the Champs-Elysées, where all gatherings have been banned.
France: return of Yellow Vests
Written by David Fletcher 17 Sep 2020Additional Info
- Pray: for the minister of the interior, Gérald Darmanin, to maintain order and be able to guarantee both security and the right to demonstrate peacefully. (Job 11:18)
- More: www.france24.com/en/20200912-the-return-of-the-yellow-vests-provide-a-challenge-to-france-s-new-government
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