Francais: gendarmerie respectfully observe Yellow Vests finish waltz to Edith Piaf before dismantling protest camp - [PEACE] [AS IN LITERALLY]
The title is kinda misleading - the (french military) police actually stood back (as the article body explains) whilst the #GiletsJaunes protesters waltz their last camp waltz. Piquant. Classically French. Go Yellow Vests! French spirit in motion: Yellow Vests waltz to Edith Piaf as police close down camp (VIDEO) https://www.rt.com/news/447143-yellow-vest-france-dance-police/ … When French gendarmerie – military police – arrived to clear out a group of demonstrators who had set up camp outside the town, a troupe of Yellow Vests assembled for a final feat of heart-tugging defiance. Congregating around their makeshift bonfires, the yellow-clad resistors danced arm-in-arm to the tender strains of Edith Piaf. The military police, who had been sent to evict them, looked on – respectfully waiting, it seems, for the rousing French ballad to end before beginning their unpleasant work. This brief video tells a story that goes much deeper than opposition to fuel taxes or Emmanuel Macron – the nationwide Yellow Vest movement has stirred the French soul. Don’t hold your breath waiting for Western media to broadcast such images on every TV screen, however. Increasingly, the working-class protesters are being painted as dangerous extremists who have been spurred on by Moscow. CNN, for example, has claimed https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/07/europe/who-are-gilet-jaunes-intl/index.ht... that “anti-immigration populists and hard-core fascists” are among those who fill the movement’s ranks – an apparent attempt to discredit the nationwide, cross-party movement. …
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