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TEHRAN, Jan 8 - France is to plan to give hard time to Yellow Vest protesters who have been rallying for weeks against fuel tax raising.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Monday that France is hardening its stance on the protests, in a speech he made after motorbikes torched and barricades set ablaze on Paris’s upmarket Boulevard Saint-Germain, Reuters reported.
“We need to preserve the right to demonstrate in France and we must sanction those who break the law. That’s why the government favors updating the law in order to sanction those who do not respect this obligation to declare protests, those who take part in undeclared protests, those who arrive at protests with balaclavas” Philippe told TF1 television.
He noted that the government could use the current law against football hooligans, whereby individuals can be banned from stadiums, as a model for the upcoming legislation, which might be introduced as soon as February.
The Prime Minister also stated that the “casseurs”, or “thugs”, who had brought destruction to Paris and other major cities, vandalizing banks and other buildings, would be forced to pay for the damage they caused.
The “Yellow Vest” campaign, now in its eighth week, is said to be the biggest political crisis of Macron’s 20-month presidency and has brought his popularity ratings to an all-time low.
In recent weeks, some of the protests have turned into major riots described as the most violent clashes in France in decades.
Public anger appeared to have abated over the holiday period; however, the brief arrest on Wednesday of Eric Drouet, one of the leaders of the movement, seems to have rekindled resentment among his supporters.
Source: Sputnik News
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