Gilets Jaunes protest with significantly less participants

The protest movement of the "Gilets Jaunes" France is losing momentum. On the first Saturday of the year, the country will go far, about 25 000 people on the street, it comes to outbreaks of violence. The French government has recently taken a harder line. the

With significantly fewer participants than it was even a few weeks ago started the "Gilets Jaunes"-protest movement in France in the new year. In Paris and some other cities, there were new clashes with the police. The news channel France info reported with reference to police sources, out of a total of 25 000 protesters - the beginning of December, there were almost 80 000. In Paris, the 3500 people.

it came to outbursts of violence. After initially peaceful protests, protesters continued to barricade reports on fire and threw objects at police. A restaurant boat on the Seine was set on fire and a policeman suffered injuries when a Bicycle was thrown at him. The police used tear gas to prevent hundreds of demonstrators from reaching a Seine-bridge-the national Assembly.

interior Minister Christophe Castaner met with the heads of the security forces, and said on Twitter that it had also come in other various cities to violence. Protests it gave, among other things, also in Bordeaux, Caen, Rouen and Marseille./p>

After considerable concessions had been taken by the French government last a harder line against the yellow West. The protest movement has become "a thing of agitators who are driving the revolt forward, to overthrow the government," said government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux on Friday. President Emmanuel Macron had instructed his Ministers on the first Cabinet meeting of the new year, law and order. At the same time, you should try a radical reform of the country.

The protests were sparked increases in government plans price of petrol. They grew quickly to mass demonstrations against Macron, and its economic policy as a whole.