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TEHRAN, Jan 1 - Some 150,000 police forces are set to be on duty across France on New Year’s Eve as “yellow vest” demonstrators have already called for yet another round of anti-government protest rallies in the European country.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday is also set to make a televised address to the country at 8:00 p.m. local time (1900 GMT), at the same time as yellow vests have been called to mass on the Champs-Elysees avenue in the French capital.
Paris, in particular, will be on full alert with 12,000 security force on duty after frequent clashes over the last month between anti-riot police forces and the so-called yellow vest demonstrators.
Since November 17, thousands of demonstrators wearing yellow vests have been gathering in major French cities to initially protest Macron’s controversial fuel tax hike — which he later dropped — and the high costs of living in France.
However, the protest movement has diminished dramatically in the last fortnight, yet the prospect of protesters in yellow vests mixing with revelers and tourists in the capital will cause a new headache for the stretched Paris police force.
Source: Press TV
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