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<\/a><\/p>\nFrance is likely witnessing the worst non-wartime bloodshed since the Paris Commune massacre of 1871. Comments from the highly placed in France include, \u201cWe have not seen such injuries in France since the war in Algeria,\u2019 and \u201cThe instructions given to the police by the interior minister and President Macron represent systematic and violent repression.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n In the wake of the latest Yellow Vest protests gripping France the injury toll of the worst civil unrest in decades now resembles Civil War. Yet despite pleas from victims, Emmanuel Macron is tightening the screws on the distressed French peoples.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThis is not normal. We are in France, one of the oldest and best democracies in the world,\u201d\u00a0says Fiorina Jacob Lignier, who lost her eye at a demonstration in Paris on December 8. \u201cWe usually condemn other countries where this occurs, that this is happening here is unbelievable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Lignier, a 20-year-old philosophy student, travelled from the northern city of Amiens to march on the Champs-Elysee to protest against fuel taxes with her boyfriend, Jacob Maxime.<\/span><\/p>\n Her boyfriend told non-European media that they were walking with a column of peaceful demonstrators, when a group of radicals began to vandalise a shop front more than 50 yards away.<\/span><\/p>\n The police\u00a0began shooting Flash Balls and throwing grenades in all directions,<\/em>\u00a0during which the couple spent two hours\u00a0penned in between a line of gendarmes and a wall, with no chance to flee.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Fiorina Lignier said the last thing she remembers was the cries of cops clearing the way for firemen, then a gas grenade hit her on the head, and she was on the ground.\u00a0\u00a0When she woke up, her nose was broken, her face swollen from fractures, and she couldn\u2019t see through her left eye. Over the next 16 days, Lignier underwent two surgeries, and is still waiting for two more.<\/span><\/p>\n Fiorina Lignier. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n My eye still hurts. During the next surgery, they will remove it. It\u2019s hard to get up to feel all this, I can\u2019t go to lectures, I can\u2019t read, and moving my eyeball is excruciating,<\/em>\u201d said Fiorina.\u00a0\u201cI do not recognize my country. These are not the values I was taught at school.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n For most demonstrations anywhere in the West, Lignier\u2019s story would have made her a poster girl for law enforcement excesses. Among the Gilets Jaunes, her case is just one of many. The sheer scale of concentrated peacetime violence since November is hard to comprehend.<\/span><\/p>\n Following a recent demonstration, the Interior Ministry reported that 1,300 policemen and over 2,000 demonstrators had suffered injuries. Considering the difference in equipment and organisation between riot police and the mostly unarmed crowd, most French media have speculated that the real civilian toll is several times higher, particularly as many have not had their injuries officially recorded.<\/span><\/p>\n Desarmons-les (Disarm Them<\/em>), an activist group that protests against state violence, has been\u00a0compiling\u00a0a toll of the most serious cases. The last one, dated from last month, lists 140 names.<\/span><\/p>\n Zineb Redouane. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n They include Zineb Redouane, an 80-year-old Marseille bystander who died of a heart attack as doctors tried to help her after police fired a tear-gas grenade in her face through the window of her apartment. Also among them is Sebastien Maillet, whose hand was torn off when another grenade landed close to him during a protest outside the National Assembly last weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n In summary, 20 people some entirely innocent and law-abiding have lost eyes, five hands have been partially or entirely torn off, one person lost their hearing as a result of a TNT-stuffed GLI F4 stun grenade.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI have repeatedly seen injuries consistent with those suffered in serious traffic accidents, or after falls from a great height,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0neurosurgeon Laurent Thines told L\u2019Express newspaper this week.<\/span><\/p>\n While the May 1968 student and worker protests that upturned French history claimed four lives directly, Thines believes the overall scope, length and intensity of violence were much more contained than the current chaos. If so, France is likely witnessing the worst non-wartime bloodshed since the Paris Commune massacre of 1871.<\/span><\/p>\n For Maxime, a different comparison comes to mind\u00a0\u2013 the most painful and humiliating conflict for the post-WWII modern republic<\/span><\/p>\n Injured Yellow Vest protester in Paris. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n \u201cWe have not seen such injuries in France since the war in Algeria,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>he said.\u00a0\u201cThe instructions given to the police by the interior minister and President Macron represent systematic and violent repression.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n None of those hurt in the past three months denies that there is a belligerent element among the demonstrators. But also none believe that the police are attempting to minimize the violence.<\/span><\/p>\n Human rights officials, activists and trade unions have urged French police to review its use of so-called\u00a0sub-lethal weapons,<\/em>\u00a0particularly LBDs, odd-looking hand-cannons that have become a symbol of the confrontations.<\/span><\/p>\n Banned in all but three European Union states, these French-patented devices fire relatively slow and large compressed foam or Flash balls, and have been responsible for most of the injuries, alongside tear-gas projectiles.<\/span><\/p>\n No policemen have been reprimanded for a single one of the injuries sustained on the streets, and a mere 100 Yellow Vest cases are being investigated, which includes non-violent and relatively trivial incidents.<\/span><\/p>\n Earlier this month, the National Assembly passed a law imposing six-month arrests and hefty fines on\u00a0\u201csuspected hooligans\u201d<\/em>\u00a0participating in demonstrations. Human rights groups say that the law is a denial of the basic democratic freedom of assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n Lawyer Philippe de Veulle, who represents several prominent Gilets Jaunes, is hoping for a positive decision from the European Court of Human Rights, telling media that its word will have\u00a0\u201cnot legal, but political ramifications\u201d,<\/em>\u00a0shaming the Europhile Macron regime into stopping its \u201cunprecedented<\/em>\u201d actions.<\/span><\/p>\n Whether or not the current government suffers at the ballot box in the upcoming European or future presidential and parliamentary elections, however, one thing is becoming clearer.<\/span><\/p>\n With each passing week, each angry crowd, and each new injury, it is becoming harder for Emmanuel Macron to dismiss the Yellow Vests as a transient and marginal movement. 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