Sixteenth consecutive week of demonstrations by France’s Yellow Vests
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France 24 reported that once more on Saturday, Yellow Vests took to the streets of France for the sixteenth consecutive week of protests amid signs of waning support.
For more than three months, protesters, most of them wearing luminous yellow vest, have been demonstrating against French President Emmanuel Macron’s government.
Apart from Paris, France 24 reports that demonstrations are to take place in cities throughout France, including Marseille, Nice, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Nantes and Toulouse.
In the northeastern city of Lille, protest organisers have called on Yellow Vests throughout the region as well as in neighbouring countries such as Belgium and Germany to converge on the city.
In Lyon, a “black march” is to be held in which demonstrators will turn up dressed in black as a “symbol of mourning” as a sign of protest against three prominent members – Éric Drouet, Priscilla Ludosky and Maxime Nicolle – who in November called for the protests to finish.
Their appeal was made as a reaction to the launching of Macron’s ‘grand debate’ on January 15, an initiative in which every French person is supposed to be able to air their grievances as a response to the popular uprising that emerged in opposition to proposed fuel tax hikes in November to then transform into more amorphous movement calling for a wide variety of policy changes.
