French president Emmanuel Macron’s attempts to quell the outraged protest of the French people is failing. Hundreds of thousands have turned out in defiance of Macron’s protest ban, which he has combined with an effort to demonise the French left.
In Paris, particularly, the streets were filled with protesters:
The protest was so vast that street-level views couldn’t possibly do it justice, astonishing even seasoned observers:
And Macron’s politically-bankrupt regime has nothing to offer but more brutality:
Police violently attacked even those not participating directly in the demo:
French police gave no thought to the lives they endangered of people who were no threat to them:
And even as protesters tried to leave the city at the end of the protest, they were attacked:
The western ‘democracy’ lie has been well and truly laid bare: first by collaboration in needless foreign war, now by states’ contempt for their own people. And the UK is no better.