{"id":388534,"date":"2018-12-10T04:41:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T03:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/french-government-threatens-bloody-crackdown-on-yellow-vest-protest\/"},"modified":"2018-12-10T04:41:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T03:41:07","slug":"french-government-threatens-bloody-crackdown-on-yellow-vest-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/french-government-threatens-bloody-crackdown-on-yellow-vest-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"French government threatens bloody crackdown on \u201cyellow vest\u201d protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>French government threatens bloody crackdown on \u201cyellow vest\u201d protest<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Alex Lantier and Francis Dubois<br \/>\n    <br \/>8 December 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Ahead of today\u2019s marches by \u201cyellow vest\u201d protesters against President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, the French government issued unprecedented threats of a bloody crackdown in the capital. Amid rising support for the \u201cyellow vests\u201d among students and workers, and mounting popular anger with Macron, top officials are warning that they will stop at nothing to intimidate and threaten protesters. Some 89,000 riot police and armored vehicles are to be deployed today.<\/p>\n<p>Macron\u2019s attempt to shut down the protest by first postponing and then ultimately canceling the fuel tax increase that first provoked the demonstrations has failed. Instead, the movement has continued to spread across France and internationally, to Belgium, the Netherlands, and as far as Iraq. Amid growing demands by \u201cyellow vests\u201d for large wage increases, taxes on the rich, and more social equality, which his government has no intention of fulfilling, Macron is preparing for a showdown.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, as authorities closed monuments across Paris and shops boarded up storefront windows to prepare for rioting, spokesman Benjamin Griveaux spoke to <em>Le Parisien<\/em> to slander the \u201cyellow vests\u201d as cop killers. \u201cThey are coming to smash, burn, pillage, and attack with the intention of killing representatives of public order,\u201d Griveaux said. Asked if he was telling protesters not to come to Paris, he replied: \u201cThat is the advice that I would give.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Griveaux gave no evidence to support his charge that \u201cyellow vests\u201d intend to kill police. After three Saturdays of protests in which violent police charges led to four deaths and left hundreds injured, not a single policeman&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/12\/08\/fran-d08.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 French government threatens bloody crackdown on \u201cyellow vest\u201d protest By Alex Lantier and Francis Dubois 8 December 2018 Ahead of today\u2019s marches by \u201cyellow vest\u201d protesters against President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, the French government issued unprecedented threats of a bloody crackdown in the capital. Amid rising support for the \u201cyellow vests\u201d among students [&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-388534","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\/388534","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=388534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}