Yellow vests - and body armor

Two weeks of mass protests in France: skirmishes with the police and pogroms. Photos from Paris

On Saturday, December 1, the "yellow vests" again entered the Champs Elysees. The protest, which began as fuel, has definitely become political. The president is treated with the message to the activists, the minister meets their representatives, and the French media give the participants in mass protests “eighty percent” of folk support (from those surveyed on the same streets). Several political parties are actively involved in the protest agenda - and the authorities are convenient to blame the pogroms of nationalists, but they obviously do not lead the protests - there is no clear leader at the protest at all this time. The worse for the government.

Meanwhile, pogroms and skirmishes with the police continue in the capital and large cities. On December 3, it became known about the death of an 80-year-old Frenchwoman, wounded by a fragment of a tearful grenade in Marseille. This is at least the fourth victim, which is known since November 17, when the "vests" first took to the streets.