Damascus-Sana
The frenzy of the protest movement in France led by a movement that called itself the "yellow jackets" is renewed despite the passage of more than a year since its launch in protest against the economic and social policies of the government of French President Emmanuel Macron, which confirms that this movement continues until the goals that were pursued for it and the government's disavowal The French failed to respond to those goals.
Renewed protests every Saturday that the French police met with gas bombs and launched a campaign of arrests among the participants, as media sources indicated that the French authorities arrested 59 protesters last Saturday who launched slogans denouncing the French police and President Macron and his project to reform the country's pension systems.
Participants in the Saturday protests chanted "Macron, we come to you in your house" and "the streets are ours", and video images circulating confirming the police practices of the methods of repression against the protesters, including a tape of a photographer for the French Press Agency, showed that the police arrested a young man and beat him and his face covered in blood.
Saturday's renewed protests came in conjunction with a general strike that paralyzes public transport in France about two months ago in protest against the French government's project to adopt a new pension system, the longest continuous strike in France in 30 years with an absence of a solution to the crisis.
In conjunction with the protests in the streets of Paris, French protesters tried to storm a theatrical show attended by President Macron and his wife, and chanted calls for his resignation, as was the day before striking workers forced the management of the Louvre Museum in Paris to close the museum after they blocked its entrance in protest against amendments that the Macron government was imposing on Retirement system.
French unions opposed to the amendments to the retirement system said in a statement, "At the heart of the Louvre pyramid, where Macron chose to be installed, a trade union front was formed against his disastrous tendencies regarding retirement."
The yellow jacket protests were launched on the seventeenth of November 2018 and first began denouncing the rise in fuel prices as well as the rise in the cost of living and then extended its demands to include the drop of taxes approved by the French government, which the movement sees as draining the working and middle classes while strengthening the rich class and leading to the demand for the departure of Macron From power.
Since the beginning of the protests, the French government has used excessive violence, and the police have cracked down on demonstrators, killing and wounding thousands and arresting hundreds of protesters, as well as massive violations by the police and media activists, which has made them vulnerable to a flood of criticism.
The French government's efforts to contain the movement that largely succeeded in curbing Macron's desires to pass harsh liberal reforms in a number of vital sectors and yielding to some of the protesters' demands, such as suspending the tax increase on fuel, did not succeed in stopping the protests, and despite their disappearance in the last months of last year, it has increased its momentum recently After joined by opponents of the project to reform pension systems and transport unions, which reflects its strength, vitality and determination to compel the government to achieve its economic and living demands completely away from analgesics.
Observers believe that the yellow jacket movement has greatly shaken the popularity of Macron, who is afraid that the demands of the protesters will intersect with the demands of other occupational groups on social ground and one policy to form a major pressure element that would be a strong blow to his aspirations to run for a second term amid activists criticism of the government for their indifference to their demands and their failure to take measures Urgent and concrete.
Reem Abu Turabi