{"id":10193,"date":"2018-12-06T14:05:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T14:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/france-protests-government-fears-major-violence-in-coming-days\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T15:48:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T15:48:41","slug":"france-protests-government-fears-major-violence-in-coming-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/france-protests-government-fears-major-violence-in-coming-days\/","title":{"rendered":"French Protests &#8211; About More than Fuel Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like the French Government\u00a0u-turn on fuel and energy prices has done nothing to dampen the mood of discontent\u00a0felt by citizens and further demonstrations are planned for the weekend. Issues such as social inequality and proposed changes to the university education system (which would exaggerate these) have not gone away and tax cuts for the rich are not helping. After sweeping to power on the back of more socialist policies, one of the first decisions was to abolish the &#8220;Wealth Tax&#8221; which automatically made the wealthiest even richer while the poorest 25% saw their\u00a0incomes fall &#8211; the phrase &#8220;let them eat cake&#8221; springs to mind.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly the protests are growing increasingly violent &#8211; due in part to the protestors\u00a0spanning the whole political spectrum and thus there\u00a0is no focal leadership.\u00a0 This has led to the President looking into\u00a0mobilising the military to protect important national monuments. It appears that the Arc de Triomphe was damaged last week and this is shameful &#8211; no matter how angry you feel destroying your own national treasures makes no sense. However, with reports of gratuitous violence from the riot police, the Government are as much to blame.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HkxSLJKE2cY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Just one of a number of videos showing the level of violence<\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/dec\/05\/french-protests-brexit-raging-cry-help-fuel-prices-macron\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Header Image\u00a0Guillaume Louyot Onickz Artworks\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like the French Government\u00a0u-turn on fuel and energy prices has done nothing to dampen the mood of discontent\u00a0felt by citizens and further demonstrations are planned for the weekend. Issues such as social inequality and proposed changes to the university education system (which would exaggerate these) have not gone away and tax cuts for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[199,312],"class_list":["post-10193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-news","tag-france","tag-yellow-vests"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10193"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10214,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10193\/revisions\/10214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}