Watch Live: Paris On Lockdown – Tear Gas Fired, Mass Arrests Amid “Act IV” Yellow Vest Protest Chaos
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Sat, 12/08/2018
Paris police resorted to extreme crowd-control measures on Saturday as tens of thousands of “Yellow Vest” protesters descended on the French capital for a fourth weekend of chaos which began over fuel taxes and quickly morphed into general outrage at the Macron government.
Tear gas was fired at the protesters who were shouting “Macron, resign” near Champs-Elysees avenue. At least 575 were arrested in Paris of the more than 700 demonstrators arrested countrywide, according to Secretary of State to Interior Minister Laurent Nunez, as cited by French media.
Dozens of people were arrested carrying “masks, hammers, slingshots and rocks,” according to AFP.
At least 31,000 protesters came out for Saturday’s “Act IV” event – coordinated through social media.
“The movement has given birth to a monster,” said Interior Minister Christophe Canaster of the Yellow Vests – which the Macron administration deployed 89,000 police and gendarmes to try and contain. 8,000 police forces were active in Paris alone.
“These past three weeks have produced a monster that its creators no longer control,” Canaster said Friday, saying that the administration would have “zero tolerance” to those trying sow chaos.
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