The police used tear gas on Tuesday against a hundred "yellow vests" and two men were arrested in Grand Bourgtheroulde, Eure, where the President of the Republic came to launch the great debate national, found AFP.
Clashes between protesters and law enforcement. The gendarmes made the first use of tear gas when protesters were slow to retreat as the police demanded them in the center of the village, a few hundred meters from the gymnasium of this village of 3,700 inhabitants where Emmanuel Macron has found around 600 elected local shortly after 15 hours. "Demonstrators have assaulted gendarmes," a police officer told AFP on the reason for the tear gas.
Two men were arrested for rebellion. It was used a second time to contain the "yellow vests" in a street, and prevent them from joining the gym, according to Constable. Two men were arrested for rebellion, according to Constable. Many demonstrators expressed their anger and then sang the Marseillaise , after the use of tear gas. Previously they had chanted "Macron resignation".
Two delegations of "yellow vests" received. At midday, Emmanuelle Wargon, in charge of the animation of the "big debate", received successively in town hall, between 1 pm and 2:30 pm, two delegations of six "yellow vests" each, received under the boos of others " yellow vests ". During one of these meetings Laurent Ricordeau, driver in training, estimated that "what makes up the hate is the police violence." That one is gassed while one is pacifiste with 100% and that There are grandpas and grandmas with their grandchildren waiting for the bus, it's not normal. We have videos of that, "said the 38-year-old minister, referring to a protest in Rouen, while Ingrid Levavasseur, a caregiver from the Eure who lives alone with her children, asked why the government does not lower VAT on fruits and vegetables to increase that on luxury goods.
Dams around the town. A hundred "yellow vests" managed Tuesday morning to bypass, through the woods, dams in place around the town, to reach the town. "Finished the time of the kings", could one read on the wooden panels tagged of the window of a butchery, one of the rare trade to have protected its frontage. Some of the businesses were closed. According to an AFP photographer, between 200 and 300 "yellow vests" were also blocked one kilometer from the town.