{"id":191595,"date":"2019-07-15T07:23:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T07:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=191595"},"modified":"2019-07-17T05:40:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T05:40:39","slug":"bastille-day-parade-protests-paris-police-fire-tear-gas-at-gilets-jaunes-protesters-on-champs-elysees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=191595","title":{"rendered":"Bastille Day parade protests: Paris police fire tear gas at gilets jaunes protesters on Champs-Elysees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conrad Duncan \u2013 The Independent July 14, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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French police deal with a fire on the Champs Elysees after the Bastille Day parade. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

French police have fired tear gas at protesters in central Paris<\/a>, hours after Emmanuel Macron<\/a> presided over the Bastille Day<\/a> annual military parade alongside other European leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n

The thoroughfare was reopened to traffic after the parade finished but a few hundred protesters from the grassroots “yellow vests”\u00a0movement then tried to occupy it.<\/span><\/p>\n

France<\/a>‘s BFM television showed images of police firing tear gas to disperse the protesters, who tried to block the road with metal barricades, dustbins and other debris.<\/span><\/p>\n

Several loud bangs could be heard. Protesters hurled objects at the police, booed and set a bin on fire.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Paris Police Department said 175 people had been arrested since the morning and\u00a0calm returned to the\u00a0Champs-Elysees<\/a>\u00a0by 4pm.<\/span><\/p>\n

Two prominent members of the movement, Jerome Rodrigues and\u00a0Maxime\u00a0Nicolle, were both detained by the police, according to\u00a0AFP.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Police Prefecture said on Twitter<\/a> it had ordered the protesters to leave the area, or be forcibly removed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Weekly demonstrations by yellow vest protesters have dwindled in size to just a few hundred people in recent weeks from about 300,000 nationwide in November.<\/span><\/p>\n

As Paris\u00a0authorities had banned all “yellow vest” demonstrations near the parade, many\u00a0protesters did not wear\u00a0the high-visibility jackets that give their movement its name.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Macron, who has faced months of protests from the \u201cyellow vests\u201d, was joined by German<\/a> chancellor Angela Merkel<\/a> at the\u00a0showcase of European defence cooperation for Bastille Day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Flags from the 10 countries of the European Intervention Initiative, a joint military pact created last year, led Sunday\u2019s parade in Paris.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alongside more than 4000 armed forces and more than 100 aircraft, the parade also saw a \u201cflying soldier\u201d as French inventor Franky Zapata soared through the air on his so-called Flyboard.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a Bastille Day message\u00a0published before the parade, Mr Macron said he wanted to highlight France’s commitment to\u00a0European security.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Never since the end of the Second World War<\/a> has Europe been so necessary. The construction of a Europe of defence, in connection with the Atlantic Alliance … is a priority for France. It is the theme of this parade,” Mr Macron said.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Acting together and strengthening our ability to act collectively is one of the challenges that the European Intervention Initiative, along with other key European projects, wants to address,” he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although the clashes between protesters and police came after the parade, Mr Macron was audibly booed as he rode down\u00a0the Champs-Elys\u00e9es earlier in the day.<\/span><\/p>\n

The French president and his guests had already left for the Elys\u00e9es\u00a0presidential palace for lunch before the demonstrations turned violent.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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