{"id":180159,"date":"2018-12-07T07:20:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T07:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=180159"},"modified":"2018-12-09T07:14:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T07:14:55","slug":"army-on-the-way-to-paris-photos-videos-of-french-armored-vehicles-on-the-move-emerge-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=180159","title":{"rendered":"Army on the way to Paris? PHOTOS &#038; VIDEOS of French armored vehicles on the move emerge online"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">RT \u2013 Dec 7, 2018<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_179899\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/paris-protests2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-179899\" class=\"wp-image-179899\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/paris-protests2-1024x640.jpeg\" alt=\"Demonstrators during a protest of \u201cyellow vests\u201d against rising oil prices and living costs, near the Champs Elysees in Paris, France, on December 1, 2018. Click to enlarge\" width=\"540\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/paris-protests2-1024x640.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/paris-protests2-300x188.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/paris-protests2.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-179899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators during a protest of \u201cyellow vests\u201d against rising oil prices and living costs, near the Champs Elysees in Paris, France, on December 1, 2018. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Photos and videos of armored vehicles allegedly approaching Paris to be deployed during Saturday\u2019s protests have appeared on Twitter. Earlier, the French PM promised military police vehicles at the rallies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Even though the government dropped the fuel tax hike after mass protests last week, the Yellow Vests will still march on December 8.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On Thursday evening, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/445789-paris-riots-extra-police\/\">promised <\/a><\/strong><\/span>8,000 additional officers in Paris and 89,000 nationwide to be deployed during the protests. He also announced that <em>\u201ca dozen armored vehicles\u201d<\/em> belonging to the French Gendarmerie will be rolling on the streets of the City of Lights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Right after Philippe\u2019s statement, people on Twitter started posting unconfirmed photos and videos of vehicles which they claimed were approaching the capital. <em>\u201cThe army arrives in Paris,\u201d<\/em> one person wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/GaiLuronNicky\/status\/1070753610940715008<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Bon ben je confirme, l&#39;Etat va bien envoyer l&#39;arm\u00e9e \u00e0 Paris <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5BhNUqx7Hh\">pic.twitter.com\/5BhNUqx7Hh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Henri Death II (@AntSabatier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AntSabatier\/status\/1070651226725982208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/iamlouaubert\/status\/1070779475972055041<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The French Gendarmerie is a military police force which works under the jurisdiction of both the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gendarmerie.interieur.gouv.fr\/\"><strong>Interior<\/strong> <\/a><\/span>and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/gendarmerie\"><strong>Defense<\/strong> <\/a><\/span>Ministries. This type of deployment has not occurred since riots broke out in the Paris suburbs in 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">France is still recovering after violent clashes on December 1 resulted in over 130 people injured and more than 400 arrested. Four people, including an elderly woman, died.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This Saturday, the Yellow Vests\u2019 slogan is <em>\u201cwe stay on our course.\u201d<\/em> One of the movement\u2019s leaders, Eric Drouet, even promised to reach the Elysee Palace, the official residence of President Emmanuel Macron.<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/obMM00CCKSY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Some reports in French media even claim that the authorities are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/445750-france-coup-attempt-protests\/\">worried<\/a><\/strong><\/span> about a possible coup attempt. There have been calls to attack parliamentarians, government officials, and police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/445816-france-armored-vehicles-protests\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armoured vehicles seen approaching Paris, allegedly to help contain anti-government protest that are scheduled for Saturday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180189,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180159\/revisions\/180189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}