Police and protestors in clashes as anti-marcon demo turn violent
- 4 years ago
#antiMarconProtestors #President Emmanuel Macron
An astonishing video of uniformed fire fighters and elite riot police meeting for an apparently pre-arranged fight have emerged in France.
The two rival groups confronted each other on a council estate in north east Paris yesterday.
The armed CRS, for police Republican Security Companies, wear full body armour and carry shields and batons, while their opponents wear distinctive silver helmets.
After a charge by the CRS, there is hand-to-hand fighting, before the police throw tear gas grenades.
If followed disturbances earlier in the day during a march by the firefighters, who were on the street calling for better pay and working conditions.
‘The firefighters had been roughed about by the CRS and were not happy about it,’ said a witness.
‘A group of them pulled away from the main body of demonstrators and there confrontation with a CRS unit that seemed to be pre-arranged.
‘Things got very violent, and the confrontation was only broken up when the CRS started throwing tear gas grenades.’
The video of the trouble was posted by the independent news outlet Hors Zone (Out of the zone) Press on Twitter.
Earlier in the day, there had been fighting on the main route of the protest march, which was between Republique and Nation squares.
Some of the protesting firemen even set themselves on fire, before the flames were extinguished by colleagues.
There have been continual street protests and strikes in France for the past six weeks in protests against new pension reforms being introduced by President Emmanuel Macron’s government.
So-called Yellow Vests, demonstrators named after their trademark fluorescent motoring jackets, have also been on the street since November 2018.
They started off complaining about rising fuel charges, but are now a mass movement who want Mr Macron to resign.
#antiMarconProtestors #President Emmanuel Macron
An astonishing video of uniformed fire fighters and elite riot police meeting for an apparently pre-arranged fight have emerged in France.
The two rival groups confronted each other on a council estate in north east Paris yesterday.
The armed CRS, for police Republican Security Companies, wear full body armour and carry shields and batons, while their opponents wear distinctive silver helmets.
After a charge by the CRS, there is hand-to-hand fighting, before the police throw tear gas grenades.
If followed disturbances earlier in the day during a march by the firefighters, who were on the street calling for better pay and working conditions.
‘The firefighters had been roughed about by the CRS and were not happy about it,’ said a witness.
‘A group of them pulled away from the main body of demonstrators and there confrontation with a CRS unit that seemed to be pre-arranged.
‘Things got very violent, and the confrontation was only broken up when the CRS started throwing tear gas grenades.’
The video of the trouble was posted by the independent news outlet Hors Zone (O
An astonishing video of uniformed fire fighters and elite riot police meeting for an apparently pre-arranged fight have emerged in France.
The two rival groups confronted each other on a council estate in north east Paris yesterday.
The armed CRS, for police Republican Security Companies, wear full body armour and carry shields and batons, while their opponents wear distinctive silver helmets.
After a charge by the CRS, there is hand-to-hand fighting, before the police throw tear gas grenades.
If followed disturbances earlier in the day during a march by the firefighters, who were on the street calling for better pay and working conditions.
‘The firefighters had been roughed about by the CRS and were not happy about it,’ said a witness.
‘A group of them pulled away from the main body of demonstrators and there confrontation with a CRS unit that seemed to be pre-arranged.
‘Things got very violent, and the confrontation was only broken up when the CRS started throwing tear gas grenades.’
The video of the trouble was posted by the independent news outlet Hors Zone (Out of the zone) Press on Twitter.
Earlier in the day, there had been fighting on the main route of the protest march, which was between Republique and Nation squares.
Some of the protesting firemen even set themselves on fire, before the flames were extinguished by colleagues.
There have been continual street protests and strikes in France for the past six weeks in protests against new pension reforms being introduced by President Emmanuel Macron’s government.
So-called Yellow Vests, demonstrators named after their trademark fluorescent motoring jackets, have also been on the street since November 2018.
They started off complaining about rising fuel charges, but are now a mass movement who want Mr Macron to resign.
#antiMarconProtestors #President Emmanuel Macron
An astonishing video of uniformed fire fighters and elite riot police meeting for an apparently pre-arranged fight have emerged in France.
The two rival groups confronted each other on a council estate in north east Paris yesterday.
The armed CRS, for police Republican Security Companies, wear full body armour and carry shields and batons, while their opponents wear distinctive silver helmets.
After a charge by the CRS, there is hand-to-hand fighting, before the police throw tear gas grenades.
If followed disturbances earlier in the day during a march by the firefighters, who were on the street calling for better pay and working conditions.
‘The firefighters had been roughed about by the CRS and were not happy about it,’ said a witness.
‘A group of them pulled away from the main body of demonstrators and there confrontation with a CRS unit that seemed to be pre-arranged.
‘Things got very violent, and the confrontation was only broken up when the CRS started throwing tear gas grenades.’
The video of the trouble was posted by the independent news outlet Hors Zone (O