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January 14, 2019

France: "Yellow Vest" Protesters Take to Streets for 9th Straight Week
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In France, tens of thousands of yellow vest protesters took to the
streets over the weekend for the ninth straight week, with over 200
arrests as clashes between protesters and police broke out in Paris and
other cities. French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a national
debate in an attempt to quell frustration among demonstrators who say
Macron is too detached from the reality of working people in France.
This is protester Maxime Raynaud.

Maxime Raynaud: "In the government, there are people who don't want to
let go of anything. They've lived in it. It's their world-fraud, think
of their own advantage. They have no reason to let go. They don't know
better. And it's the same for us: We have no reason to let go. We don't
know anything else but misery. So we're best enemies."



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