{"id":400722,"date":"2019-03-21T23:55:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T22:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/unanswered-questions-on-french-police-role-in-saturday-yellow-vest-clashes\/"},"modified":"2019-03-21T23:55:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T22:55:56","slug":"unanswered-questions-on-french-police-role-in-saturday-yellow-vest-clashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/unanswered-questions-on-french-police-role-in-saturday-yellow-vest-clashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Unanswered questions on French police role in Saturday \u201cyellow vest\u201d clashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Unanswered questions on French police role in Saturday \u201cyellow vest\u201d clashes<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Anthony Torres and Alex Lantier<br \/>\n    <br \/>21 March 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The escalation of repression by the Macron government after Saturday\u2019s clashes with protesters on the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es in Paris, during the 18th weekly \u201cyellow vest\u201d protests, raises the most serious questions as to the government\u2019s role. No evidence has been provided that the violence was caused by \u201cyellow Vest\u201d protesters. But the \u00c9lys\u00e9e is seeking to tear up the right to protest on the basis of these murky events, which sections of the state apparatus itself have attributed to far-right forces.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the government announced that protests could be banned in areas where violence had previously occurred, if police declare that \u201cextreme elements\u201d could be present among the protesters. But it is precisely the question of the police\u2019s own role that is raised by Saturday\u2019s events, which saw numerous buildings set on fire, notably Fouquet\u2019s restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>The police, which were filmed ransacking the merchandise store of the Paris Saint-Germain football club, are now threatening the \u201cyellow vests\u201d with a major escalation of violence. Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Lagache, the general secretary of the Alliance police union which is tied to neo-fascists, called for the injuring of demonstrators: \u201cWe should be willing to clash with them and maybe cause some injuries. We\u2019re not going up against choir-boys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Interior minister Christophe Castaner added: \u201cOn Saturday, on the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es, there were no Yellow Vests, just people acting in a logic of war who wanted to take back the Arc de Triomphe. There were 10,000 rioters on the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es.\u201d That is, the anti-riot police force just created by the government could treat all&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/03\/21\/fran-m21.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Unanswered questions on French police role in Saturday \u201cyellow vest\u201d clashes By Anthony Torres and Alex Lantier 21 March 2019 The escalation of repression by the Macron government after Saturday\u2019s clashes with protesters on the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es in Paris, during the 18th weekly \u201cyellow vest\u201d protests, raises the most serious questions as to the government\u2019s [&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-400722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}