Shocking images show the iconic tower masked by a covering of smoke and cars engulfed by burning flames sit abandoned on the roadside as demonstrators continued their stand off with authorities. Earlier today yellow vest demonstrators clashed with riot police who fired tear gas at crowds in Paris today after demonstrators from the grassroots movement turned out this weekend to resume their standoff with authorities.
The streets of Paris have been set ablaze during ‘yellow vests’ protests in Paris this evening leaving the Eiffel Tower shrouded in thick black smoke, after riot police fired tear gas at crowds earlier today.
he Yellow Vest protests in Paris reached such a fever pitch this weekend that the Eiffel Tower was covered in thick black smoke from top to bottom. Despite thinning crowds, events seem to be intensifying. Citizens of France seem more determined than ever to throw off the shackles of globalism as they demand the removal of President Macron.
Eiffel shines through choking black pall after Yellow Vest protesters set cars ablaze as they call on Macron to go
FROM DAILY MAIL UK: Protesters have set cars alight and left them to burn in the streets of the capital city, as a demonstration against the French government’s tax policies resumed for the seventh consecutive week.
Shocking images show the iconic tower masked by a covering of smoke and cars engulfed by burning flames sit abandoned on the roadside as demonstrators continued their stand off with authorities.
SEVERAL HUNDRED PEOPLE WEARING THE SYMBOLIC HI-VISIBILITY VESTS HAD GATHERED NEAR THE OFFICES OF FRANCE TELEVISIONS AND THE BFM TV CHANNEL IN THE CENTRE OF THE CAPITAL SHOUTING ‘FAKE NEWS’ AND CALLING FOR THE RESIGNATION OF PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON.
Earlier today yellow vest demonstrators clashed with riot police who fired tear gas at crowds in Paris today after demonstrators from the grassroots movement turned out this weekend to resume their standoff with authorities.
Cars were left to burn in the streets of Paris following a day of high tension between the yellow vests and authorities
But the turnout for round seven of the popular protests that have rocked France appeared low. Despite it being the seventh weekend of protests, momentum for the movement appears to be waning as only small groups took to the streets in Paris and elsewhere in France.
Several hundred people wearing the symbolic hi-visibility vests had gathered near the offices of France Televisions and the BFM TV channel in the centre of the capital shouting ‘Fake news’ and calling for the resignation of President Emmanuel Macron.
Protesters spilled on to tram lines and lobbed projectiles at police who replied with tear gas grenades and detained several people. Tear gas was also fired in Nantes, western France, and protests were expected in Lyon, Bordeaux and Toulouse. READ MORE