France’s Yellow Vest Protesters Just Won Against Macron (HBO)
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- According to local media in France, Macron’s government announced a moratorium on the hike in fuel prices today. The U-turn comes after Saturday’s riots in Paris which the government said were the worst they had seen in 50 years.
It marked the third week of “gilet jaunes” or yellow vest protests across France, named after high-visibility safety jackets the French are required to keep in their cars. The movement first came together on social media to protest an increase in fuel taxes. But among chants of “Macron Resign! Macron Resign!” at the protest, it was obvious it had become about working and middle class being hit hard by the economic policies of President Emmanuel Macron.
“We need a balance between the rich and poor in France,” Jimmy Moreno told VICE News among tear gas and water cannons at L’Arc de Triomphe. Jimmy came to protest peacefully and voted for Macron in the 2017 election but says he wouldn’t vote for him again.
“He has shown himself to be cold-hearted and inhuman, little more than a banker, with no place governing a nation,” Jimmy said the day after the protest at his home in the Paris suburb of Argenteuil.
“What's happening now because of the government's violent actions and the yellow vests' violent reaction, is representative of French history. Every time there is a shift in governance or a revolution, there is violence, it's unavoidable,” he added.
The government struggled to negotiate with the yellow vests which is an a-political grassroots movement that has no clear leadership. But smashed shop windows, graffiti, and cars burning in the streets got the government's attention. “We need to violence to stop because the violence we had against police, against institutions last week is just unacceptable so we need it to stop,” said Aurore Bergé, a deputy in the French Parliament and spokesperson for Macron’s party En Marche!.
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Well if nothing else, the French are great at protesting the government
at least they haven't broke out the Guillotine yet
Glad i don't live in France, in my country people cooperate more instead of protesting and everyone is better for it.
Destroying private property is helping the working class??
But if any country attacks they wave white flag😂😂😂
Lol i disagree, they flipped and burned innocent random peoples cars lol they probably belong to some of their own fellow protestors haha
The people are stronger than the government
But wasn't macron elected by 2/3 of the people?
@@86Corvus and macron betrayed those people
now he's got nobody
Legendadm See for ref French Revolution. Macron should stay in his bunker.
hell no, he was elected by 2/3 of actual VOTERS, not the people. Roughly 44% of the total registered voters voted for him, ie 25% of the entire population. Abstention was about 25%. @@86Corvus
66% of people voting, 44% of all voting prople. A lot have vote for blaock marine le pen.
You know youre doing something wrong when the far left and far right dont even mind fighting together against YOU
The last time it happened in France was in 1940-1945 under the Nazi occupation
Guy ur not French so shut up u don't know anything in France it's pathetic
@Satan You can say that again, Overlord of Evil 😈
don't buy into all that left/right shit... it's top versus bottom always has been a class war. wake up.
Ok, so if people want to kill minorities I should just ignore that because "it's a top-bottom war"? Sorry but that is complete nonsense and ignores discrimination, fascism, etc.
The French people are the only people in western world with balls enough to say enough is enough. Big respect
Billysplinter Billysplinter Americans have it too good, we haven’t reached breaking point yet. Summer is nearing though
Opiates & Opioids my mama is dead for one. For 2, you don’t know me from Adam you judgemental person . Not that you deserve ANY explanation from me, but the name is my entertainment name, I rap. I’m a taxpayer and a published author, what have you accomplished? The gun is a political statement as I am a Libertarian and supporter of the American 2nd Amendment right to protect yourself and your family. There are 400 million guns here and the black market thrives so why restrict the people. Oh But look at your name you’re just a junkie
Thats not true. Poland, cheque republic and Austria woke up way before France. England also with Brexit
England woke up way before us ? I didn't see any riot against the British gov this last decade. The only peoples with the balls to revolt in Europe today are French, Belgians, Ukrainian and Greek.
It's a shame for all Europeans countries that the protests didn't spread in the neighborhood
They had like 10000000000000 revolts in france
When your livelihood is under attack there is no left or right anymore
That is the key, the top echelon tries to divide us with meaningless issues, color, gender, sexual preference, etc etc, they fear what we might accomplish if we ever stand up to them in unison, united and focused on one enemy who IS the one responsible for our peoples hardships- The Ruling Class. People are easy to control when they are divided.
Ford Cobra Boss 427 well fucking spoken 👏👏👏
@@fordcobraboss427 Damn right!!
There is no left or right. It's another divide and Conquer label created by the elite. Anyone who uses their left and right bullshit is part of the problem.
Maybe protest in a way that does not harm other citizen's property? I see people smashing storefronts and committing vandalism (burning other innocent civilian's cars). They must be stupid thinking that they are inciting positive change. The protestors are creating their own enemies.
I'm with you France. Respect from Finland
Finland???. What???😂😂😂
Finland is literally, heaven on earth like you have no problems.
Same
Mrspotato20 We have mamu's thats our problem
TORILLE
Lembööleen Paasauskeisari No ei meillä kauheesti oo 15k vaa
To the people of France that are protesting, thank you for giving people hope and courage to stand up against corruption. Standing up for humanity. ✊🏿
That us an EXCELLENT comment, well done and thank you.
Kill fasciste macron!
Big respect from Sweden. I wish we had the same mentality here, to fight for your rights.
You do, if you will. Now is the time.
I agree- from Australia.
liam breuner brother, you must fight for your own people and culture. Don't let this brown cocksucking merkel destroy your beautiful country, always defend it just like how your brave and strong forefathers did! But don't let your feelings become rage, because we will be scared if you became genocidal, (cough2x) WW2 😂
You can come in France to protest... Lot of Swedish peoples every weeks in Paris... TV called them black blocks, we called them Future
@@jamesmanuel8517 **cough cough** Vikings
It is a tax on the poor when the cost of living goes up but wages don't. The rich thrive while the masses suffer and die
Welcome to Traitor Trumpville
I think the premise behind proposed change had more to do with combating climate change. The malicous sideeffect was that it hurt the poor alot since they're dependant on fuel as it's a greater margin of their total economy.
Climate change is a dire consequence and unfortunately people can't think longterm or outside of their own lives unless/until they get hit by severe effects of climate change.
We're in an extremely problematic situation right now but it seems like we need to find other solutions. Taxes on fossil fuels will always hit poor people harder since fuel costs are always a bigger part of their internal economies. Most people roughly travel the same amounts through transportations which's why it always hurts the poor the most.
When you give non citizens everything that’s also a big part of taxes
Henrik Swanström quite right , sadly foisting taxes on the wealthier citizens is not happening in a proportional fashion!!!
Climate Change kills not tax
The American Revolution started because of taxes, so did the French Revolution later on because of the sharp increase of taxes...
Let them do it again!
See the declaration of independence for some of the reasons for the US revolution. Taxes was only one small part.
Yes history repeating, you would think the politicians would learn.
It's due to the concurrent tax cuts of the rich while raising taxes on fuel (which disproportionately target the poor). So don't misrepresent it simply as a sharp increase of taxes, the protests are about economic inequality and against the ruling interests of the economic elite.
@@p.c.2349 I was refering to the American War of Independence (American Revolution) and the French Revolution (The British overtaxed the Americans and the French overtaxed their citizens plus with other factors being in play, overtaxation was the tipping point). Other than that I am very well informed of the current situation.
I agree with French people 100% BIG RESPECT FROM IRELAND
When will the Irish revolt against the British overlords? You'd have my support. I want our government to collapse
Yes and we love our Irish brothers.......But we still can't stand the English....lol
jerome5ify well what else is new?
-English lad across the water
Yes.
@@user-qj7fp9ug7j Nope I want Ireland to be British.
Big respect from Lithuania
The French know how to protest , they have strength and have the balls of steel.
3:22 Hilarious. "they don't see the taxes that are decreasing, only the taxes that are increasing" Gee, maybe because the fuel tax is a regressive tax on poor people and the wealth tax reduction is for high income brackets... duh
Hell yeah
fully right. The problem is that the political class in France isn't aware of that. They don't know which taxes impact the working class in France, because they were never part of it. They were always part of the elite.
C’est pas ça qu’il ait choisi ça le problème c’est qu’il le fasse avec de l’argent magique qui nous endette d’année en année de mesure en mesure pour des générations, le problème c’est tout simplement et ça n’a plus de secret pour personne c’est l’euro, l’euro nous ruine alors que nous ne sommes pas un pays pauvre et c’est ça le pire c’est que dans notre société de consommation en Europe on ne voit pas ce qui va venir car on se conforte, puis les « européiste » c’est comme les communistes ce sont des égarés de l’histoire mais il pense qu’en insistant encore plus ça va résoudre les problèmes. Tout ça parce qu’il veule pas avoue que l’Union européenne est un échec et le peuple français est le seul à avoir voté non par référendum et on nous l’a quand même imposer c’est en plus une trahison de la démocratie
Respect from USA ✌🏻✌🏿
Reyes Regime thank guy
Now police and crs arrested student
I want to leave this place
@@ThNave Hang in there, I'm sure yellow vests will spread all across Europe and even into the United States. Nationalists don't want to pay more taxes to take care of immigrants with no education or work skills.
The whole world is watching~! Give 'em hell, France!
Keep on the good fight France!
#MakeFranceGreatAgain
Respect from Germany for the whole Yellow Vest Movement !
Merci , vous êtes nos frères
@@julmorisson65 1870, 1914, 1940. Ça vous suffit donc pas de faire confiance à l’allemand ?
@@kayzenl7911 mais g rencontré plein d allemands et je les trouves sympas
Respect from Poland!
dziękuję merci 👌☝️
Go France! Show them more!
Jordan Bronson
Im in paris I have
Stolen in a bank
Fight vs crs and
Take a flash ball in the head
Why do I feel like they about to creak out the guillotine
That looks more and more likely.
We might just pull one out from a museum somewhere ;)
Keep being strong The People of France much love from America!
French Republic and the American Republic. 1776 and 1789. Brothers.
@@AbrahamLincoln4 Yup
@@AbrahamLincoln4 But those surrender jokers should be guilottoned
They be still goin
the french want direct democracy like Switzerland. the french want their country back.
Vive la France, vive la révolution!
America is with you
@@radiooperator3176 no its not
@@neggaballs3840 shut up
@@neggaballs3840 The french dont need them,they did french revolution by themselves
@@ritaDas-xl4kz good we have enough trouble in the middle east
I AM A CANADIAN AND YOU GUYS ARE DOING WHAT SOME PEOPLE DONT HAVE THE BALLS TO DO. KEEP IT UP #YELLOWVEST
VIVA LA FRANCE
DOWN WITH MCARON
Merci frère!
Thank you!
@@robertmoray988 autocorrect bro, typed it on my phone
@@Crentshen You mean Macaroni
1:49 that guy really got mad 😂
France Is The Best. Respect from uk ❤️
Dim Dim imagine getting mad because of a spelling error, yikes.
I support their cause,I dont support thr burning of shops owned by fellow citizens
What is their cause, exactly? No-one seems to be able to explain it clearly...
@@russianbot8950 maybe some owners took advantage . Your Russian , you should know a little something about insurance fraud comrade.
Russian Bot l’augmentation du prix de l’essence (dans un premier temps) et dans la foulée, l’augmentation du niveau de vie, la baisse du pouvoir d’achat... le simple fait qu’il soit au pouvoir pour moi?!
(Google Trad exist...)
@@murphy3141 Sorry, I don't speak dying languages of countries we had to save from annihilation twice... (I'm American btw)
@@osvaldoreyes34 I'm American. I know the French are too stupid to realize they are protesting carbon taxes they voted for.
🗽🗽🗽Love to the French people from your liberty loving cousins the US.
@@DocJohnnyBoy naw we are good with Trump. If it had been hiillary things already would be going down in america
Willem be the same in USA soon, but with guns, good luck folks
@@jegzair6483 You'd be surprised at how swell the economy is doing here in the states
@@punished7030 A spiralling deficit and imminent financial collapse? Yeah, real healthy economy you got there :P
"The french people" "exactly, the french people" respect
While I support their cause, the french aren’t really “people”
Respect for the people of France 💪💪💪💪💪
I wish my French comrades the best in their fight!
The American working class should take notes...
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The protest is repressed class anger because of economic inequalities the tax is just the straw that broke the camels back
We won’t! We are divided on race! Good luck on trying to get southern whites to be on the right side of anything
@@nashville1510able Tu t'es cru dans Game of Thrones mdrr
“We are divided by race! Good luck getting southern whites--“ the irony.. lmao. Omg Americans.. lol. Smh.
Remember the last time France revolted against their leaders? 😉
yeah it literally ended western civilization. Luckily this one looks to have better goals in mind.
Naa, its just the way the french people protest. its like this every 5-10 years.
Now, every day
May 1968
French revolt against their government all the time... like at least once every 10 years
I, as a turkish citizen, support the yellow vests movement wholeheartedly. Keep on your protests my friends, until you get what you demand ✊
Davut VATANSEVER thanks my turkish friend
Davut VATANSEVER well, only a slave need the citizenship!
I am free and independent!
Vive La France!!
mh, the title is wrong and lying. They haven't won anything beside the government 'suspending' the tax. That isn't a win to their demand; it's a pacification of the problem at hand.
These idiots are too stupid to know the difference...
The fuel tax might actually be totally canceled. It’s still not enough but it’s already a tiny step forward.
Samba M. - not so tiny!
Ingrid Raphael - ya think?!
@@OMGAnotherday what everybody wants is Macron to repeal the tax break he offered to the richest people. It's not fair for the rich to make even more money and for the poor, Who sometimes make as little as €1000 a month to pay more. This has been going on for far too long now.
God bless all peoples of Europe and long live Europe. Vive la France !
Andrej Trotzki thanks for all messages from you guys who live in foreign countries we will never give up . Vive la France 🇫🇷
Respect from Ukraine. Ukrainians with you.
Thank, but it can restarted now with the covid... Maybe in Ukraine too... Sometimes, people have no choicies. I visited Kiev and i try to learn russian langage, i wish a long life for ukrainian people, i like your country ;)
Viva La France From The Netherlands Wish We Dutch People Had The Guts 2 To Do Something Like That Respect From The Netherlands
Result of neoliberal economics and polices. We had it in Britain with Thatcher and now it's happening in France..only difference is that the French can protest better and hopefully for the ordinary man these economic reforms will have to be put down.
Neo-liberalism is about lowering government spending/size so that taxation can be lowered. What Macron is doing has to do with Neo-liberalism...
Rahul Shah neoliberal, more like decreased taxes on the rich
@@pierrethetrex6106 That statement makes no sense. Macron is increasing taxation. That's why these people are protesting the fuel taxes.
@@pierrethetrex6106 That is correct but overall it is about de-regulation and the pulling back of the states support of the working class. This was just he icing on the cake.
Russian Bot because he’s run out of money due to big business cuts
Make france great again from China
Jeff Tsang 这就是他们支持的民主政治
Make China great again. Xi Jinping is a dictator, trying to create a police state.
polifatts noop, the thing in China is different, if someone want to do a big thing, he has to concentrate all the power, otherwise many corrupt officers will overthrow him.
polifatts although I disagree with him in a few things, but totally he is a good leader.
@@user-fb6ct2lk1t 中国共产党的走狗 你为独裁邪恶的政府出卖灵魂 你必将下地狱的 早点醒悟吧！
French ghost from the French Revolution: Aw shit here we go again
Standing up against our corrupt politicians!
-best regards from Germany!
Power to the people! I support France in their protest. Imagine if America stood up. Wake up
Ha....they're too busy watching the kardashians and drinking pop.
Hey imagine a decent system being betterd by Trump what does America need more, maybe a bit more antifa facists
@@runealluyn1541 Lmao..... They have Trump lying on record 8,158 in his first 2 years in office. He's nit bettering anything. Lol
It's just Americans bad
Trump 2020
Love to France from the China，
China will always support the French people to confront the dark French government.
J'aime la France, de Chine，La Chine soutiendra toujours le peuple français pour faire face au gouvernement français sombre.
The hypocrisy is that China is a communist totalitarian government like North Korea
@@dylanburns7665 *CORONAVIRUS*
Do you also support Hong Kong.
@@majeedmamah7457
He might not be able to respond to that.
@@majeedmamah7457 He cant respond or he will be detained
Big respect from the USA
Hong Kong has much to learn from them, good job French people
We need this action in the States
No we don't. Trust
Well it already happened. The people rose up and voted for Trump.
@@General.Noodle Yes we do. The yellow vests need to start in the U.S.
Yes we do we got 5G going up at every corner people being sacrificed in paradise Cali!
Why though? Trump has cut taxes and unemployment is at an all time low.
"It smells like the start of a revolution."
2:03 When you spwan in GTA Online
The French have always been good at standing against being 'sheep'
Something the rest of the world could learn from.
C'est vraiment touchant de voir qu'il y a du soutien de la part d'autres pays!
The French people are more than just berets and baguettes. They overthrew an extraordinarily powerful monarchy which led to a global revolution of geopolitics and the rise of democratic government. Don't piss them off.
Yeah, we endure a lot and look like we don't care and are unable to do anything, but there is always a breaking point, and it has been reached for good!
Trump winning the Presidency of USA has shown the whole world Socialism can be defeated and freedom has to be fought for. French yellow vests rebellion is already spreading like fire in the rest of Europe and citizens of each involved Country are ready for action. Vive la France - Vive la liberté!
Respect from China.
i m french and yellow vest dont worry we are still fighting..WE NEED TO SPREAD THE YELLOW VEST all over the world...freedom for the peoples ...BIG LOVE
but that wouldn't change anything, people, at the top or not, will allways choose themselfs over others that's what humans do for example only the ones affected or thing there are affected are fighting they don't think "maybe this can be good for society " no they think "i have to pay more taxes, i don't like that"
@Ming No you are a slave who loves his slavery
As a Democrat I am not happy Macron. This is simply wrong and Macron should conform and work WITH the people not against them.
He IS working With the people
He IS not working against them
@@mrblackonwhitealvet3018 dude hes an elitist he acts like a king when hes should act like a servant to the people
Axton Dragunov yeah and is he not serving the people ?
They voted for Carbon taxes. Now they don't want to pay them. Pure stupidity...
We haven't seen that many angry French since the French revolution
Robert J. WW1 had a lot of mutineers that ended up getting executed. People were really upset during WW2. Some joined the us and British army, many were fighting from the inside and were sent to German camps and killed. 1968 had major protests too. Don’t underestimate the French.
You should look up "may 68 in France" on Google. This is not our first time.
i have. riots in 2005, 1998, etc etc etc... ges, even soccergames are as violent.
Revolution happended in 1830, 1848, 1870 and extremely violent riots in 1936, 1968 and 2005. So we are quite used to it.
The french protest all the time. It's their national pastime.
Keep going protestors🇫🇷! Love from China 🇨🇳！
I'd be careful supporting anti-government protests in China. The Chinese government has a record of massacring protesters...
@idot dude if he is currently not using a vpn then I don’t think he knows about Tiananmen Square
MACRON 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻
I'm French and Dutch. I hope that eventually the whole of western Europe will be returned to their former glory and get rid of Macron and the EU. Vive la France!
These are not “violent protesters”. They are freedom fighters.
Dont speak when you don’t know
@@runaina5926 I am from Hong Kong so I know a freedom fighter when I see one
Big respect from brazil here!
2:09 Yes it is
Aaaaa the smell of burning cars
Sham on Macron ! He should resign right away!
And who should take his place? None of the other party leaders have the back fot the job.
Why did I got durex advertisement before this video?
We need a bit of that yellow vest courage in Australia right now.
People say that the French are cowards yet they are one of the few people to effectively stand up to the government and demand changes.
name surname and still it’s the same mother fuckers that vote the people in
If any political party wants to win they have to work with the people hand and hand.
Michael Ayeni that worked well with hollande didn’t it
Communist party？？
Thank you for inspiring Hong Kong protesters! The protest in Hong Kong has been going on for 2 months already, more than 450 protesters are arrested, most of them are students, they are facing maximum 10 years of jail time, and our government is trying prosecute some of them with life sentences. The police shot more than 1,000 tear gears, dozens of rubber bullets. They hired gangs to beat up protestors and citizens, many of them are injured. Our government is still not willing to listen for our demands, but we will not back down, until our demands are fulfilled.
Just some updates from Hong Kong. Things are getting worst here, on 11 Aug, the police shot bean bag bullets directly at a female first aider's eye, resulting in permanent blindness. They shot protesters in the subway station with paper ball guns within the distance of 1 meter and shot multiple tear gas bombs at indoor subway station. Please pray for Hong Kong
@@ilikemusicsowhat is it getting better.. ? I'm worried.
When you play call of duty campaign on veteran mode
At the end of the day Salina Kyle said it to Bruce Wayne. " There's a storm comming. You and your friends will be left wondering how you thought you could take so much and leave so little for the rest of us."
viva la resistance!
Vive e" thx 4 ur French :P
respect from the USA♥️
Watching from Ontario Canada
People are tired of corrupt governments all over the world .
N'ayez pas peur - vive France
At least France tries, the U.S. just listens to Corporations.
The French Government look like they are telling the People to eat cake,
How did that end the last time someone told them that.
With 👒
😵
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France: We had some of the most violent protests in the 21st century
Ukraine: Hold my beer
From a french perspective, this is pretty bad covering of the events
The government responded without listening !!!!! The government is totally out of it!
This footage is from a French video of this topic! Where is their credit! I just finished watching theirs.
Respect aux citoyens français
De la Turquie❤
I'm French and I can tell that the situation is not really better today....
ça c'est améliorer quand même mdrr
@@aayhanfett894 Oui bien sur mais se que je veux dire c'est que c'est pas forcément top
Bientôt le deuxième round.
They have grandpa who works at the community library, out there with a riot shield and a baton LMAO
1:38
When you are suffering from cold turkey because of lack of baguette lol 🤣 🥖
0:18 is the incredible Hulk
Someone's remembering how to be the french resistance. (-;
Ok but that old man just passing by a burning car like it's nothing is hilarious
They didn’t mention peaceful protesters, they didn’t mention protesters helping to secure small businesses, and from vice I expected to see a relation with their last video on paris riots.
What was brighter from the protesters is clearly their inspiring heterogeneous composition, elders, middle-working class, left movement, right movement, simply people all together. (A)
Vice....this guy didn't explain the full reason ...he just ranted
At some point I think people cannot stay peaceful/calm in protest because :
- the government does nothing to change and is extremely condescending.
- police violence
Sadly, sometime brutallity is the only way to get answer
The media should be reporting this,not ignoring it
Is this Veneuela?
Long live France!!! Wish this was how Canada reacted to Trudeau’s carbon tax on gasoline.
creman12 thank guy
Canada is cucked beyond belief. The USA needs to build a northern wall as well as a southern one.
We pray for success of your revolution from Japan.
For you
This is not right or left, this is people vs government
Democracy or death!
Macron was elected by the people.
Dude trump will not arrest the republicans he gets away with to much bs why would he do that. .
eragon2121 continue joking
Когда у нас также будет? Почему мы можем только на телефоны снимать?
I'm french and i hope a better world for every human on earth, no war , no exploitation ,we must believe on the yellow vest and all the people with an heart
sorry for my english
Respect from wales