{"id":386932,"date":"2018-11-28T18:52:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T17:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/slanders-depicting-yellow-vest-protesters-as-violent-neo-fascists-collapse\/"},"modified":"2018-11-28T18:52:12","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T17:52:12","slug":"slanders-depicting-yellow-vest-protesters-as-violent-neo-fascists-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/slanders-depicting-yellow-vest-protesters-as-violent-neo-fascists-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Slanders depicting \u201cYellow Vest\u201d protesters as violent neo-fascists collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Slanders depicting \u201cYellow Vest\u201d protesters as violent neo-fascists collapse<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    our reporter<br \/>\n    <br \/>28 November 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>In the aftermath of last Saturday\u2019s demonstrations in Paris, the French political establishment has unleashed a torrent of political invective against the \u201cYellow Vest\u201d protesters on the Champs-Elys\u00e9es. Ministers, police and the media have vied with each other to denounce workers, professionals and small business people who protested in yellow vests as \u201cultra-left\u201d or neo-Nazis. Their propaganda is totally false.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not yellow vests who demonstrated, but the brown pest [far-right],\u201d Minister of Accounts Gerald Darmanin declared, echoing the Interior Minister Christophe Castaner. The latter called the protesters \u201cseditious\u201d and said they \u201cresponded to the call by [National Rally President] Marine Le Pen,\u201d the neo-fascist leader who neither protested on the Champs-Elys\u00e9es nor appealed for violence.<\/p>\n<p>The police prefect defended his forces\u2019 brutality by citing the threat of \u201cviolent ultra-right and ultra-left networks.\u201d <em>Marianne<\/em> denounced a \u201cunited ultra-right and ultra-left, these fake \u2018yellow vests\u2019 who ransacked the Champs Elysees,\u201d while BFM-TV\u2019s Ruth Elkrief worried over the \u201cinfluence of a number of parties \u2026 of the extreme-right and extreme-left\u201d on the protests.<\/p>\n<p>The reactionary petty-bourgeois pseudo-left reprised the same insults as Darmanin in order to present the \u201cYellow Vest\u201d protesters as virulent neo-fascists. <em>Mediapart<\/em>, which is close to the middle-class New Anticapitalist Party, attacked them for having organized \u201cvery right-wing demonstrations\u201d or even being \u201ca little brown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the police carried out mass arrests of what they declared to be the most dangerous among the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/11\/28\/fran-n28.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Slanders depicting \u201cYellow Vest\u201d protesters as violent neo-fascists collapse By our reporter 28 November 2018 In the aftermath of last Saturday\u2019s demonstrations in Paris, the French political establishment has unleashed a torrent of political invective against the \u201cYellow Vest\u201d protesters on the Champs-Elys\u00e9es. Ministers, police and the media have vied with each other to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-386932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}