{"id":268389,"date":"2023-05-03T06:22:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T06:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=268389"},"modified":"2023-05-04T05:30:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T05:30:50","slug":"maidez-for-macron-paris-burns-as-hundreds-of-thousands-rally-and-riot-against-globalist-govt-on-may-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=268389","title":{"rendered":"M\u2019aidez for Macron: Paris Burns as Hundreds of Thousands Rally and Riot Against Globalist Govt on May Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Kurt Zindulka \u2013 Briebart May 1, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The smoke of burning buildings, trash and even one unfortunate police officer perfumed the air on May Day in France. It\u2019s officially springtime in Paris, but whether the promise of a new harvest will bear any ripe fruit for President Emmanuel Macron remains doubtful as the revolt against his neo-liberal regime continues to rage.<\/p>\n<p>As people across Europe danced around the Maypole to mark the coming of Spring after another harsh winter mired by economic deprivation, the people of France did their own form of traditional dance, that of rioting against an out-of-touch government behind the walls of a palace.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_268391\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/A-protester-in-Paris-wearing-a-President-Macron-mask.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-268391\" class=\"wp-image-268391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/A-protester-in-Paris-wearing-a-President-Macron-mask.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-268391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protester in Paris wearing a President Macron mask. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While it isn\u2019t at all uncommon for French radicals to riot on the First of May, which also marks the socialist International Workers\u2019 Day, the scale of the protests across the country demonstrates the continued anger among the people at the government of Emmanuel Macron. The President, who rather than focussing on how to solve the inflation, energy, and general cost of living crises facing the people chose to use considerable political capital to pass an increase to the pension age without a vote, is broadly seen as being guilty of an undemocratic attack on the working class by the ruling elite class to which Macron belongs.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to last year, when just\u00a0116,500 citizens marched throughout France on May Day, official Ministry of Interior figures estimate that some\u00a0782,000 poured out onto the streets on Monday, with some 112,000 in Paris, alone. The numbers are a clear sign that the protests against Macron do not appear to be going anywhere anytime soon, despite the \u2018Jupiterean\u2019 leader\u2019s pleas to the public to give him 100 days to turn around the ship \u2014 to which the unions in return promised \u201c100 days of anger\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Affrontements sur la place de la Nation. Les forces de l&#39;ordre re\u00e7oivent de nombreux tirs de feux d&#39;artifice <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/1ermai?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#1ermai<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ReformeDesRetraites?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ReformeDesRetraites<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nQfdPM5wHY\">pic.twitter.com\/nQfdPM5wHY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; QG le m\u00e9dia libre (@LibreQg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LibreQg\/status\/1653049537764769795?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0Interior Minister G\u00e9rald Darmanin, at least\u00a0108 police officers and gendarmes were injured during the heated protests, with 19 officers in Paris being hospitalised. In one grim instance, one officer in riot gear suffered burns to his face and arms after he was set on fire by a Molotov cocktail thrown by a radical.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters weren\u2019t immune to injury either, with reports of \u201cdozens\u201d of hospitalizations and one member of the public having their hand blown off by a police stun grenade in Nantes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2023\/05\/01\/macrons-face-banned-football-cup-final-big-screen\/\">reports <\/a>the <em>Telegraph<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Des policiers prennent feu apr\u00e8s le jet d&#39;un cocktail molotov. Affrontements tr\u00e8s intenses \u00e0 Paris<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LucAuffret?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LucAuffret<\/a> pour <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LibreQg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LibreQg<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ReformesDesRetraites?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ReformesDesRetraites<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/1ermai?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#1ermai<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9TjoNryQDV\">pic.twitter.com\/9TjoNryQDV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; QG le m\u00e9dia libre (@LibreQg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LibreQg\/status\/1653024620121845760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Paris?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Paris<\/a>, la police est d\u00e9bord\u00e9e, un engin incendiaire a explos\u00e9. Des CRS sont touch\u00e9s par les flammes. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/1erMai?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#1erMai<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/fetedutravail?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#fetedutravail<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ReformeDesRetraites?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ReformeDesRetraites<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/manifs1ermai?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#manifs1ermai<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/manifestation?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#manifestation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/manifestations?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#manifestations<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/manif1ermai?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#manif1ermai<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PdqRQbibHZ\">pic.twitter.com\/PdqRQbibHZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jules Ravel (@JulesRavel1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JulesRavel1\/status\/1653028679516057601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In total, the ministry recorded 300 demonstrations throughout France. There were at least 291 arrests, including 111 in Paris, and some 2,000 radicals identified by the police.<\/p>\n<p>Darmanin claimed that the sheer number of officers being injured during a\u00a0May 1st protest was \u201cextremely rare\u201d and that he \u201cstrongly condemned the violence.\u201d\u00a0Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne \u2014 who has become a target of anger amongst the public for her role in invoking the constitutional loophole to pass through the retirement age raise without a vote \u2014 also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Elisabeth_Borne\/status\/1653083744616562692\">condemned<\/a> the \u00a0\u201cunacceptable scenes of violence\u201d on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Marine Le Pen, the leader of the right-wing populist National Rally (RN) party, went further in her criticism of the violent street radicals, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLP_officiel\/status\/1653092829894172673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1653092829894172673%7Ctwgr%5E497d6665e8b9778ccaf4411743caa42d7120e04a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lefigaro.fr%2Fsocial%25%20\">saying<\/a>: \u201cWe are no longer facing violence, but facing assassination attempts against the police. As for the arsonists of residential buildings, they must be brought before the Court of Assizes.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Nouveau d\u00e9part de feu \u00e0 Paris dans l&#39;immeuble o\u00f9 un \u00e9norme incendie s&#39;est d\u00e9clar\u00e9 tout \u00e0 l&#39;heure <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/1ermai?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#1ermai<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ReformeDesRetaites?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ReformeDesRetaites<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eXatHdzWYe\">pic.twitter.com\/eXatHdzWYe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; QG le m\u00e9dia libre (@LibreQg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LibreQg\/status\/1653089959425851417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The fires the former presidential candidate \u2014 who has surged in the polls over the past month \u2014 was referring to occurred near the\u00a0Place de la Nation circle. According to police, two cans of petrol were found at the site of the fire, which saw a residential building ablaze and was only quelled by the deployment of water cannons off the back of a police truck. Later a dock for public hire bicycles was also set on fire just metres away.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, tensions also boiled over in Lyon, where at least 40 members of \u201cviolent groups\u201d were arrested. Police identified at least 1,000 black block Antifa-style radicals, who set fires to at least four cars, and vandalised bus shelters, shops, banks, and insurance and real estate agencies. Some 29 people were also arrested in Nantes, where agitators set fire to at least two cars, and injured 24 police officers and gendarmes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">A Lyon, une voiture a \u00e9t\u00e9 incendi\u00e9e par les casseurs \u00e0 l&#39;angle de l&#39;avenue Jean Jaur\u00e8s et de la rue Montesquieu. Les pompiers arrivent sous les applaudissements des manifestants <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Manif1erMai?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Manif1erMai<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Lyon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Lyon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N3H5fQFYXL\">pic.twitter.com\/N3H5fQFYXL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; actu Lyon (@actufr_lyon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/actufr_lyon\/status\/1652996656206426112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>For his part, Mr Macron did not address the rampant violence befalling his country on Monday but merely posted a picture of himself and his wife alongside workers of the \u00c9lys\u00e9e Palace, with the message: \u201cYou get up early to feed us. You promote the know-how of our territories. You contribute to our sovereignty. On this May 1st, to all the workers, thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the workers of France would appreciate the flowery message more if the president was spending his time working on increasing their wages or lowering the cost of bread, rather than jet setting around the world to attend globalist conferences and raising their retirement age without a vote as if he were a king\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Une effigie d&#39;Emmanuel Macron incendi\u00e9e par les manifestants \u00e0 Strasbourg (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GuillaumeKrempp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GuillaumeKrempp<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ReformeDesRetraites?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ReformeDesRetraites<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/1erMai?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#1erMai<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/manifs1ermai?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#manifs1ermai<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/manifestation?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#manifestation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/fetedutravail?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#fetedutravail<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/manifestations?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#manifestations<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/manif1ermai?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#manif1ermai<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KMsD334X24\">pic.twitter.com\/KMsD334X24<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Anonyme Citoyen (@AnonymeCitoyen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnonymeCitoyen\/status\/1652990366839185409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2023\/05\/01\/maidez-for-macron-paris-burns-as-hundreds-of-thousands-rally-and-riot-against-globalist-govt\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France see more than 750,000 take to the streets and at least 108 police officers injured, in protests against a change in retirement age. 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