The Yellow Vests began demonstrating Saturday, November 16, in Paris, where thousands of people were expected to give a second wind to this unprecedented social struggle. This weekend marks the first anniversary of the social protest movement. "It's going to fart, it's going to fart", "We're here even if Macron does not want it", "Happy birthday" were singing demonstrators in the capital.

The tension was particularly strong in Italy, in the south-east of Paris, where people, masked faces and dressed in black, threw projectiles, including paving stones, against an agency of the HSBC bank and against a center. commercial. Cars were knocked down, broken street furniture and
lights on. The police intervened with the help of grenades
tear and water cannons.

The Paris police headquarters has asked for "the cancellation" of an event planned for the departure from the Italian square, because of "the abuses and violence committed".

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Interpellations in Paris

Two more electric scooters sacrificed on the altar of social anger # Acte53 (13th arr.) Pic.twitter.com/AOJ1YruXAs

Timothée Vilars (@TimoVilars) November 16, 2019

In the north-west of the capital, dozens of people briefly blocked traffic on the Paris ring road at the Champerret gate. They retired peacefully at the arrival of the police, intervened a few minutes after their irruption on the ring road.

By late morning, the police had made 33 arrests and 1,204 preventive controls, said the Paris police headquarters. Several sectors of the capital are prohibited to the demonstrators, in particular the Champs-Élysées and the approaches of the Arc de Triomphe, theaters of many violences in the first months of the protest movement.

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While nearly 300,000 people gathered on November 17, 2018 across France, especially on the roundabouts, these weekly events have gradually gathered fewer people until this anniversary weekend.

One year later, the multiple demands of this vast challenge remain: VAT cuts on essential products, return of the ISF, citizens' initiative referendum. More than 270 actions are announced all weekend, everywhere in France. Meetings are scheduled in Lille, Lyon, Bordeaux, Nantes and Toulouse.

With AFP and Reuters