Alex Christoforou
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The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the increasingly violent protests that broke out in France this weekend as Macron, under the cover of a general mainstream media blackout, continues to use police force to quell the Yellow Vests.
Meanwhile the neo-liberal media failed to report on protests and strikes in Mexico, where 25,000 Mexican workers, mostly from foreign owned auto border factories, broke with their unions to demand more pay and better working conditions.
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Media Fails To Call Out Macron’s Violent Response To Yellow Vests ACT 13 by The Duran
The Duran Quick Take: Episode 80. The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the increasingly violent protests that broke out in France this weekend as Macron, under the cover of a general mainstream media blackout, continues to use police force to quell the Yellow Vests.
Via RT…
The right hand of one of the Yellow Vest protesters has been blown off by a police grenade, according to an eyewitness, during Saturday’s demonstrations in Paris.
RT video agency Ruptly’s footage from the scene shows clouds of smoke billowing around the street as protesters and police clash outside the grounds of the National Assembly.
Video captured in the moments surrounding the horrific hand injury show a marked escalation between police and protesters. One police grenade was filmed exploding as protesters approached the device.
Eyewitness Cyprien Royer told RT France that he and the injured man were near the National Assembly, where a group of people dressed in black were trying to smash their way in.
“That guy was just observing. The police arrived and started throwing grenades,” Royer explained. “One grenade flew right under the guy’s feet, and he tried to instinctively push it away with his hand, he hit it, and the grenade went off.”
“He clutched onto us. We led him to the wall where there were no people. He was screaming, screaming, he was in an [awful] state,” the witness added. “We called the ‘street medics,’ many came, they didn’t even understand at first he had his hand blown off.”
The Ruptly crew who filmed the horrific aftermath of the blast injury say they rushed over after hearing an explosion, and found the injured protester surrounded by paramedics.
Medics quickly surrounded the injured man to provide emergency treatment before he was rushed to hospital by firefighters.
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Police fired tear gas and flash grenades to deter protesters, while demonstrators threw the canisters back towards police and lobbed signs and pieces of boarding as projectiles.
kriz Grafista (elp@) @krizgrafista.bsky on Twitter: “Main arrachée, devant l’Assemblée nationale. Terrible symbole. Terrible image.. #GiletsJaunes #Paris #ActeXIII pic.twitter.com/QugIZ6lEBs / Twitter”
Main arrachée, devant l’Assemblée nationale. Terrible symbole. Terrible image.. #GiletsJaunes #Paris #ActeXIII pic.twitter.com/QugIZ6lEBs
The injured man was a photographer for the Yellow Vest movement, and Royer said he was taking pictures of people outside the National Assembly at the time.
Clément Lanot on Twitter: “PARIS – Tensions en cours. Des individus tentent de forcer un chantier pour rentrer dans l’Assemblée Nationale. Un blessé grave. #GiletsJaunes #ActeXIII #Acte13 #9fevrier #9fevrier2019 pic.twitter.com/LGYTpSLicU / Twitter”
PARIS – Tensions en cours. Des individus tentent de forcer un chantier pour rentrer dans l’Assemblée Nationale. Un blessé grave. #GiletsJaunes #ActeXIII #Acte13 #9fevrier #9fevrier2019 pic.twitter.com/LGYTpSLicU
Police in Paris fired tear gas among Yellow Vest protesters after clashes broke out on the city streets in the thirteenth week of demonstrations.
Video shared on social media earlier Saturday shows one protester lash out and kick a police officer in the face, prompting police to charge demonstrators and strike out with their batons.
According to figures from the French Interior Ministry, a total of 51,400 people took part in Saturday’s Yellow Vest protests. Some 4,000 marched in Paris, while more crowds gathered in other French cities, including Marseille, Toulouse and Bordeaux. In Paris, 36 demonstrators were arrested.
France Bleu Gironde on Twitter: “#ActeXIII #GiletsJaunes #Bordeaux plusieurs milliers de manifestants rassemblés place de la Bourse pic.twitter.com/LNFOANk6r7 / Twitter”
ActeXIII #GiletsJaunes #Bordeaux plusieurs milliers de manifestants rassemblés place de la Bourse pic.twitter.com/LNFOANk6r7
On February 8, Yellow Vest organizers said they would no longer give officials prior notice of their rallies in Paris as the movement doesn’t want to be “complicit in government violence” following a series of serious injuries to protesters during clashes with police.
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The lack of media coverage of the yellow vests protests in France is indeed very sinister. Does anyone have any further information on the reports that a D notice has been issued to the British media instructing them not to cover – or downplay – the demonstrations? https://www.worldstruth.co.uk/news/d-notice-on-yellow-vests/. Re: Italy voting against the renewal of sanctions on Russia,
Join the d… I cannot understand why Italy agreed to the last renewal of sanctions. However, with both Merkel and Macron getting weaker by the day, hopefully they – and indeed Hungary and maybe others – will be bold enough this time to stick their necks out.