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French PM Announces Scheme To Crack Down On Protests
France is planning to introduce legislation to toughen sanctions on undeclared protests after weeks of social unrest stemming from the Yellow Vests movement.
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Monday that France is hardening its stance on the unrest, in a speech he made after rioters torched motorbikes and set barricades ablaze on Paris’s upmarket Boulevard Saint-Germain, Reuters reported.
“We...
Salvini openly backs Yellow Vest protesters, lashing out at Macron
In an extraordinary public EU feud, Italy’s Matteo Salvini and his coalition partner have thrown their support behind France’s Yellow Vest movement, while Salvini also accused President Emmanuel Macron of being against his people.
“I support honest citizens who protest against a governing president [who is] against his people,” said the Italian deputy prime minister.
However, the leader of...
Hero Boxer joining Yellow Vests against French police goes viral
A video gone viral from Saturday’s French Yellow Vests protests depicts a man repeatedly punching French riot police during the Paris protests.
The man was with other yellow vest protesters and police were attempting to prevent their crossing the the Leopold-Sédar-Senghor bridge.
Officers using batons and tear gas spray to keep crowds back, one man is seen jumping over a barrier and begins punching...
France starts taxing American big tech: Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon
Tech giants will now pay more tax in France, after the country decided not to wait for the rest of the EU to introduce the measure. The so-called GAFA tax targeting major digital firms comes into force on January 1.
The French government hopes to raise €500 million ($572 million) with levies specifically aimed at multinational tech firms, including Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon, Finance Minister...
France deploys 147,000 cops to counter Yellow Vest protests on New Year's Eve
France’s Interior Ministry released a statement Sunday saying that they are taking security measures due to “high terrorist threat” and concerns of “non-declared protests” in preparation for any unrest from Yellow Vests on New Year’s Eve.
They will deploy 147,000 security forces throughout France as yellow vests plan Champs-Élysées rally.
Paris Police will have a security perimeter around...
The EU had one of its worst years ever and must change NOW, experts say
Experts have told UK newspaper Express that the bloc must change immediately as 2018 was one of its worst years ever.
“This year was punctuated by the rise of many anti-European sovereignist governments with the most iconic coming to power could be in Italy with Matteo Salvini’s victory,” Arnaud Touati, co-founder of Paris-based law firm Alto Avocats, told the Express.
“The extremely complicated...
French Police Draw Firearm on Yellow Vests
‘Yellow Vests’ protests erupted across France for the sixth straight week and frayed tensions have pushed some police to the breaking point as at least one officer drew his firearm during violent clashes in Paris.
Video footage shows motorcycle troopers overwhelmed by protestors as tear gas canisters and projectiles fly near Champs-Élysées.
Some officers deploy pepper spray, while one...
France is unlivable because of migrants, we don’t want that in Brazil - Jair Bolsonaro
Brazil’s president-elect has lashed out at France and its migration policy, the Daily Mail reports.
Jair Bolsonaro said on Facebook:
“Everybody knows what is happening in France. Some parts of France are simply unlivable.
“You know how those people are, right? They have something in them, they don’t give up their roots and they want to make their culture, their acquired rights and their privileges...
Either the EU ditches neoliberalism or its people will ditch the EU
We live in a world fashioned by Washington, and as 2019 approaches the dire consequences remain woefully evident.
In 1948 US State Department mandarin George Kennan – the man credited with devising the policy of containment vis-à-vis the Soviet Union at the end of WWII, – laid bare the focus of US foreign policy in the postwar period:
“We have about 50 percent of the world’s wealth, but only...
French Media called "North Korea" after Photoshopping Anti-Macron Placard
So here’s how the media is MANIPULATING and BRAINWASHING YOU with PROPAGANDA. This is just 1 case in a sea of other cases where they actually got caught red handed. Imagine the thousands of other fabricated stories where they didn’t get caught. And this is why ladies and gentlemen you shouldn’t trust the mainstream media. Subscribe to us instead. We are not mainstream media, we are...
Marine Le Pen has massive lead over failing Macron in European elections
According to a recent Ifop poll, Marine Le Pen holds a large lead over Emmanuel Macron.
Le Pen’s National Rally (RN), receives 23.5 per cent of support, while beleaguered Emmanuel Macron’s La Republique en Marche (LREM) has only 15 per cent of support.
For populist supporters there’s more good news, as Debout La France (DLF), the right-wing party of Nicolas Du Pont-Aignan is supported by 7.5...
11 French Generals Warn Macron He Faces Arrest for Treason over UN Migration Pact
General Antoine Martinez has written the letter signed by ten other generals, an admiral and colonel, and also includes former French Minister of Defense Charles Millon.
They’ve given strong warning that Macron’s signing the U.N. Global Migration Pact strips France of even more sovereignty providing an additional reason for “an already battered people” to “revolt”.
The highly decorated...
French government faces no confidence vote on Ousting Macron as the country is in crisis
Macron’s Government is set for a no confidence vote as French lawmakers have put together a joint statement filing a motion of no confidence against Macron’s government, AFP reports.
Leaders André Chassaigne, of the French Communist Party; Olivier Faure, from the Socialist Party; and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, founder of France Unbowed (La France Insoumise) movement joined 59 members of the National...
3 killed, 13 injured in Strasbourg Christmas market Muslim terrorist attack
At least three people were killed with another 13 injured on Tuesday in a shooting at a Christmas market in central Strasbourg, France.
Strasbourg gunman, identified as a 29-year-old Muslim named Cherif Chekat who had a criminal history, shouted “Allahu Akbar,” according to public prosecutor. Four people have been detained on suspicion of having links to the suspect, who is on the run.
French...
French riot after Macron promises to raise their salaries by 100 Euros just like Ceausescu
During the anti-government protests, Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu promised to raise the salaries of all Romanians by 100 LEI.
That was his last speech because shortly after that, he ended up killed by the revolutionaries after a mock trial.
Now just last night, Emmanuel Macron promised the exact thing, to raise the salaries of all French people by 100 EUROS and also introduce special...